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

  • 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-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
  • wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
  • wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whiffle ball — any of various lightweight, hollow plastic balls with several large air holes that cause them to abruptly curve or sink when thrown, hit, etc.
  • whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
  • white alkali — Agriculture. a whitish layer of mineral salts, especially sodium sulfate, sodium chloride, and magnesium sulfate, often occurring on top of soils where rainfall is low.
  • white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
  • white plague — tuberculosis, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.
  • white plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
  • white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
  • white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
  • white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • white squall — a whirlwind at sea or a violent disturbance of small radius not accompanied by clouds but indicated merely by whitecaps and turbulent water.
  • white walnut — butternut (def 1).
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
  • whittle away — To whittle away something or whittle away at it means to gradually make it smaller, weaker, or less effective.
  • wholehearted — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • wilhelmina i — (Wilhelmina Helena Pauline Maria of Orange-Nassau) 1880–1962, queen of the Netherlands 1890–1948 (mother of Juliana).
  • william howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • williewaught — a substantial serving or swig of an alcoholic beverage
  • withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
  • woolgatherer — One who engages in woolgathering.
  • world-shaker — something of sufficient importance to affect the entire world: The book is no world-shaker, but it's pleasant reading.
  • would rather — in a measure; to a certain extent; somewhat: rather good.
  • wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
  • wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
  • yellowhammer — a common European bunting, Emberiza citrinella, the male of which is marked with bright yellow.
  • yellowshanks — A bird, the yellowlegs.
  • yellowthroat — any of several American warblers of the genus Geothlypis, having a throat that is yellow, especially the common yellowthroat, G. trichas.
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