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12-letter words containing w, h, e, t

  • weatherproof — able to withstand exposure to all kinds of weather.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
  • weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
  • weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
  • weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
  • weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
  • weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
  • weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
  • weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
  • well-clothed — to dress; attire.
  • 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-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
  • welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
  • welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
  • west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
  • west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
  • west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
  • west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
  • westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
  • wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
  • wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
  • what is more — moreover, in addition
  • whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
  • whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
  • whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
  • wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
  • wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
  • wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
  • whereagainst — against which
  • wherethrough — through which; because of
  • wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
  • wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.
  • whippletrees — Plural form of whippletree.
  • whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
  • whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
  • whistle-stop — to campaign for political office by traveling around the country, originally by train, stopping at small communities to address voters.
  • 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 bryony — a climbing herbaceous cucurbitaceous plant, Bryonia dioica, of Europe and North Africa, having greenish flowers and red berries
  • white clover — a clover, Trifolium repens, having white flowers, common in pastures and meadows.
  • white coffee — coffee: with milk
  • white ensign — the British naval ensign, consisting of the red cross of St. George on a white field, with the British union occupying the upper quarter along the hoist.
  • white finger — a condition of a finger that results in a white appearance caused by a spasm of the blood vessels. It occurs with Raynaud's disease and with the long-term use of percussion tools
  • white flight — the movement of white people, especially middle-class white people, from inner-city neighborhoods undergoing racial integration to the suburbs.
  • white ginger — a tall plant, Hedychium coronarium, of the ginger family, native to tropical Asia, having long, broad leaves and showy, fragrant white flowers.
  • white hunter — a white man who acts as guide on African safaris and hunting expeditions.
  • white knight — a hero who comes to the rescue.
  • white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
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