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12-letter words containing w, h, e

  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • swainishness — loutishness
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
  • sweet cherry — a cherry tree, Prunus avium, characterized by reddish-brown bark and a pyramidal manner of growth.
  • sweetishness — the quality of being sweetish
  • swell-headed — a vain or arrogant person.
  • swelled head — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
  • swiss cheese — a firm, pale-yellow cheese made originally in Switzerland, typically made from cow's milk and having many holes.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • take a whizz — to urinate
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
  • the new wave — a movement in the French cinema of the 1960s, led by such directors as Godard, Truffaut, and Resnais, characterized by a fluid use of the camera and an abandonment of traditional editing techniques
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • the twenties — the years numbered 20–29 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the west end — a part of W central London containing the main shopping and entertainment areas
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
  • thick-witted — lacking intelligence; thickheaded; dull; stupid.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • throw weight — the lifting power, or payload maximum, of a ballistic missile exclusive of the weight of the rocket itself, and including the weight of the warhead or warheads and of guidance and penetration systems; ballistic delivery power: larger Soviet missiles with a throw weight of up to 20 megatons.
  • throw-weight — the lifting power, or payload maximum, of a ballistic missile exclusive of the weight of the rocket itself, and including the weight of the warhead or warheads and of guidance and penetration systems; ballistic delivery power: larger Soviet missiles with a throw weight of up to 20 megatons.
  • tip the wink — to give a hint
  • to hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • tone in with — to harmonize with
  • tooth powder — a dentifrice in the form of a powder.
  • twenty-eight — a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
  • twenty-fifth — next after the twenty-fourth; being the ordinal number for 25.
  • twenty-ninth — next after the twenty-eighth; being the ordinal number for 29.
  • twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
  • twenty-third — next after the twenty-second; being the ordinal number for 23.
  • twenty-three — a cardinal number, 20 plus 3.
  • two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
  • underwhelmed — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwrought — to do less work on than is necessary or required: to underwork an idea.
  • unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
  • unnoteworthy — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
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