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11-letter words containing w, h, e, a, l

  • lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
  • marshmellow — Misspelling of marshmallow.
  • minke whale — a dark-colored baleen whale, Baleanoptera acutorostrata, inhabiting temperate and polar seas and growing to a length of 33 feet (10 meters): reduced in numbers.
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • nightwalker — a person who walks or roves about at night, especially a thief, prostitute, etc.
  • nonwashable — Not washable.
  • pilot whale — a small, common whale, Globicephala sieboldii, of tropical and temperate seas, having a bulbous head.
  • right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
  • scape wheel — escape wheel.
  • sei (whale) — a rorqual (Balaenoptera borealis) with a light-gray or bluish back, found in all seas
  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
  • sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
  • swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • tangle with — get involved with
  • the beltway — Washington, D.C., esp. as regarded as the center of U.S. government and politics: so called from the expressway around the District of Columbia & nearby areas
  • the gallows — execution by hanging
  • the tynwald — the Parliament of the Isle of Man, consisting of the crown, lieutenant governor, House of Keys, and legislative council
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • therewithal — together with that; in addition to that.
  • twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • unwatchable — detectable; apparent.
  • up the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • view halloa — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • view halloo — the shout made by a hunter on seeing a fox break cover.
  • walk-behind — being a motor-driven machine, as a power lawn mower or a snowblower, designed for operation with the operator walking behind and guiding the machine by its handle controls.
  • ward heeler — a minor politician who canvasses voters and does other chores for a political machine or party boss.
  • water wheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
  • wavelengths — Plural form of wavelength.
  • wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
  • weatherable — able to withstand the effects of weather
  • weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
  • well-headed — having a heading or course.
  • well-healed — to make healthy, whole, or sound; restore to health; free from ailment.
  • well-shaped — of a definite form, shape, or character (often used in combination): a U -shaped driveway.
  • well-shaved — to remove a growth of beard with a razor.
  • well-taught — simple past tense and past participle of teach.
  • welsh black — a breed of black cattle originally from N Wales that are bred for both meat and milk
  • welsh vault — underpitch vault.
  • welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
  • west helena — a city in E Arkansas.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
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