8-letter words containing w, h, e
- homeward — Also, homewards. toward home.
- homeware — crockery, furniture, and furnishings with which a house, room, etc, is furnished
- homewood — a city in central Alabama, near Birmingham.
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
- honewort — any plant of the genus Cryptotaenia, of the parsley family, especially C. canadensis, having clusters of small white flowers.
- honeydew — honeydew melon.
- hoosegow — a jail.
- hopewell — a city in E Virginia, on the James River.
- horseway — a bridleway
- hot well — a tank or reservoir in which hot water is collected before being recirculated, especially condensed steam about to be returned to a boiler.
- hot-wire — Slang. to start the engine of (a motor vehicle) by short-circuiting the ignition.
- hotwired — Simple past tense and past participle of hotwire.
- how come — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- howitzer — a cannon having a comparatively short barrel, used especially for firing shells at a high angle of elevation, as for reaching a target behind cover or in a trench.
- hueytown — a town in central Alabama.
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- itchweed — a hellebore, Veratrum album, that is native to Europe
- jet wash — Aeronautics. the backwash caused by a jet engine.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- landwehr — (in Germany, Austria, etc.) the part of the organized military forces of a nation that has completed a certain amount of compulsory training, and whose continuous service is required only in time of war.
- lewisham — a borough of Greater London, England.
- lewisohn — Ludwig [luhd-wig] /ˈlʌd wɪg/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1955, U.S. novelist and critic, born in Germany.
- lie with — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- limewash — A mixture of slaked lime in water.
- low tech — low-technology.
- low-tech — low-technology.
- manwhore — (slang) A man who sells his body for money; a male prostitute.
- matthews — one of the four Evangelists, a customs collector from Capernaum, summoned to be one of the 12 apostles: originally called Levi. Matt. 9:9–13.
- meshwork — meshed material or a structure of meshes; a network.
- misthrew — Simple past form of misthrow.
- new chum — a recent British immigrant
- new hope — a town in SE Minnesota, near Minneapolis.
- new math — a unified, sequential system of teaching arithmetic and mathematics in accord with set theory so as to reveal basic concepts: used in some U.S. schools, especially in the 1960s and 1970s.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- newburgh — a city in SE New York, on the Hudson.
- newhaven — a seaport in S Connecticut, on Long Island Sound.
- newhouse — Samuel I(rving) 1895–1979, U.S. publisher.
- newshawk — a newspaper reporter, especially one who is energetic and aggressive.
- newshole — Alternative form of news hole.
- nonwhite — a sociocultural classification of modern humans with darker pigmentation of the skin than is characteristic in people of European descent.
- now then — used to preface an important remark, the next step in an argument, etc
- nowhence — from no place; from nowhere
- nowheres — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- outweigh — to exceed in value, importance, influence, etc.: The advantages of the plan outweighed its defects.
- overwash — the act of washing over something
- pear haw — a shrub or small tree, Crataegus uniflora, of the eastern and southern coastal areas of the U.S., having pear-shaped, orange-red fruit.
- peepshow — a display of objects or pictures viewed through a small opening that is usually fitted with a magnifying lens.
- peshawar — a province in Pakistan, bordering Punjab and Kashmir on the west: a former province of British India. 28,773 sq. mi. (77,516 sq. km). Capital: Peshawar.
- pinwheel — a child's toy consisting of a wheel or leaflike curls of paper or plastic loosely attached by a pin to a stick, designed to revolve when blown by or as by the wind.
- preweigh — to weigh beforehand