12-letter words containing w, h, e
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- middle white — a breed of medium-sized white pig commonly kept for pork and bacon, and for fattening
- middleweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 160 pounds (72.5 kg).
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
- new rochelle — a city in SE New York, near New York City.
- new theology — a movement away from orthodox or fundamentalist theological thought, originating in the late 19th century and aimed at reconciling modern concepts and discoveries in science and philosophy with theology.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
- noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
- now and then — occasionally
- nowhere near — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- on the prowl — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
- on the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
- on the whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- orthodox jew — a Jew who adheres faithfully to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism as evidenced chiefly by a devotion to and study of the Torah, daily synagogue attendance if possible, and strict observance of the Sabbath, religious festivals, holy days, and the dietary laws.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
- paddle wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
- paddle-wheel — a wheel for propelling a ship, having a number of paddles entering the water more or less perpendicularly.
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- pave the way — be a pioneer
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- pelton wheel — a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- picture show — motion picture.