11-letter words containing w, h, e
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charityware — careware
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- checkerwork — a pile of loosely stacked bricks in the regenerator of a regenerative furnace.
- checkwriter — a machine for printing amounts on checks, as by perforations, so as to prevent alterations.
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chequerwork — any work that resembles a chequerboard in pattern
- chewing gum — Chewing gum is a kind of sweet that you can chew for a long time. You do not swallow it.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clown white — white facial makeup used by performers, as clowns.
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- color wheel — Art. one of a pair of primary or secondary colors opposed to the other member of the pair on a schematic chart or scale (color wheel) as green opposed to red, orange opposed to blue, or violet opposed to yellow. Compare analogous color. the relationship of these pairs of colors perceived as completing or enhancing each other.
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
- curb weight — the weight of an automotive vehicle including fuel, coolant, and lubricants but excluding occupants and cargo.
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
- dead weight — A dead weight is a load which is surprisingly heavy and difficult to lift.
- deganawidah — ("The Peacemaker") flourished 1550–1600, Huron prophet, cofounder of the Iroquois Confederacy.
- diddle with — Informal. to toy; fool (usually followed by with): The kids have been diddling with the controls on the television set again.
- dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
- dog whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- dog-whistle — Politics. a political strategy, statement, slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by those who support the message: His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle appealing to racist voters.
- double whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- dower house — the dwelling that is intended for or occupied by the widowed mother of the owner of an ancestral estate.
- downhearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downlighter — Downlight.
- downshifted — Simple past tense and past participle of downshift.
- draw weight — the measured force, in foot-pounds, stored by an archery bow when fully drawn.
- durum wheat — a wheat, Triticum turgidum, the grain of which yields flour used in making pasta.
- earthenware — pottery of baked or hardened clay, especially any of the coarse, opaque varieties.
- elsewhither — Somewhither else; to some other place; in some other direction.
- emery wheel — a grinding or polishing wheel consisting of, or the surface of which is coated with, abrasive emery particles