12-letter words containing w, h, d
- watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
- water-harden — to quench (steel) in water.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weak-hearted — without courage or fortitude; fainthearted.
- weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
- weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.
- weatherboard — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherbound — (often nautical) Delayed or prevented by bad weather from doing something, such as travelling.
- wedge-heeled — having a wedge heel
- wedge-shaped — shaped like a wedge
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- what…do with — to put or place
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- white-ground — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece from the 6th to the 4th centuries b.c., characterized chiefly by a white background of slip onto which were painted polychromatic figures.
- white-haired — having hair that is white.
- white-headed — white-haired (def 1).
- white-washed — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- whitherwards — toward what or which place
- whittle down — To whittle down a group or thing means to gradually make it smaller.
- whole-souled — wholehearted; hearty.
- wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- wide-mouthed — having a wide mouth
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- wind machine — a machine used, esp in the theatre, to produce wind or the sound of wind
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- winter hedge — a clothes horse
- winter-hardy — able to survive the effects of cold weather.
- wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- wisdom tooth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- witch doctor — a person in some societies who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise evil spirits by the use of magic.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- withdrawment — The act of withdrawing; withdrawal; recall.
- witheredness — The state of being withered.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withholdment — the act of withholding