12-letter words containing w, h, i, r, l
- white liquor — (in making wood pulp for paper) the chemicals used to digest the wood, basically sodium hydroxide and sodium hyposulfite.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white poplar — Also called abele. an Old World poplar, Populus alba, widely cultivated in the U.S., having the underside of the leaves covered with a dense silvery-white down.
- white slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
- white-slaver — a person engaged in white-slave traffic or business.
- whole sister — a sister whose parents are the same as one's own.
- wigglesworth — Michael, 1631–1705, U.S. theologian and author, born in England.
- withdrawable — to draw back, away, or aside; take back; remove: She withdrew her hand from his. He withdrew his savings from the bank.
- wolf herring — a voracious clupeoid fish, Chirocentrus dorab, inhabiting the tropical Indian and Pacific oceans.
- wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
- worshipfully — In a worshipful manner; reverentially.
- wranglership — (at Cambridge University) the position of a wrangler
- yellow birch — a North American birch, Betula alleghaniensis (or B. lutea), having yellowish or silvery gray bark.