12-letter words containing w, h, i, n, s
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the twenties — the years numbered 20–29 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
- walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
- walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
- wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
- washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
- waterishness — the state of being waterish
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
- whereagainst — against which
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whisperingly — In a whispering manner; quietly.
- 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 plains — a city in SE New York, near New York City: battle 1776.
- white raisin — a raisin dried from a white grape
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- whitewashing — Present participle of whitewash.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- wigtownshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- wilton house — a mansion in Wilton in Wiltshire: built for the 1st Earl of Pembroke in the 16th century; rebuilt after a fire in 1647 by Inigo Jones and John Webb; altered in the 19th century by James Wyatt; landscaped grounds include a famous Palladian bridge
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- window shade — a shade or blind for a window, as a sheet of cloth or paper on a spring roller.
- winged horse — the constellation Pegasus.
- wisenheimers — Plural form of wisenheimer.
- wishing well — a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- witheredness — The state of being withered.
- withholdings — Plural form of withholding.
- withstanding — to stand or hold out against; resist or oppose, especially successfully: to withstand rust; to withstand the invaders; to withstand temptation.
- womanishness — The state or condition of being womanish.