10-letter words containing w, h, i, s
- strip-wash — a thorough, all-over wash with a flannel, sponge, etc, and water but without getting into a bath or shower
- sweatshirt — a loose, long-sleeved, collarless pullover of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, with close-fitting or elastic cuffs and sometimes a drawstring at the waist, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
- sweetishly — in a sweetish manner
- swift moth — moving or capable of moving with great speed or velocity; fleet; rapid: a swift ship.
- switch box — a box, usually of metal, containing one or more electric switches.
- switch hit — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter
- switch off — the act or process of switching off a power supply, light source, appliance, etc.
- switch-hit — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
- switch-off — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchable — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- switchback — a highway, as in a mountainous area, having many hairpin curves.
- switcheroo — an unexpected or sudden change or reversal in attitude, character, position, action, etc.
- switchgear — switching equipment used in an electric power station.
- switchgirl — a woman who operates a telephone switchboard
- switchover — the act or process of changing from one power source, system, etc., to another.
- switchyard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- two-thirds — Two-thirds of something is an amount that is two out of three equal parts of it.
- unswitched — a slender, flexible shoot, rod, etc., used especially in whipping or disciplining.
- viewership — an audience of viewers, especially of television, either generally or of a particular kind or program: Viewership is at its peak in the evening hours.
- visit with — If you visit with someone, you go to see them and spend time with them.
- waist-high — extending as high as the waist: a waist-high hedge.
- waistcloth — a loincloth.
- walsingham — Sir Francis, c1530–90, English statesman: secretary of state 1573–90.
- wardenship — The state of being a warden.
- washateria — a launderette.
- washbasins — Plural form of washbasin.
- washeteria — washateria.
- washing-up — to apply water or some other liquid to (something or someone) for the purpose of cleansing; cleanse by dipping, rubbing, or scrubbing in water or some other liquid.
- washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- watch list — a list of persons or things to watch for possible action in the future: a watch list of possible growth stocks.
- wealthiest — Superlative form of wealthy.
- weeknights — Plural form of weeknight.
- weightiest — Superlative form of weighty.
- weightings — Plural form of weighting.
- weightless — being without apparent weight, as a freely falling body or a body acted upon by a force that neutralizes gravitation.
- weightloss — (uncountable) The loss of bodily weight.
- wellwisher — Alternative spelling of well-wisher.
- westphalia — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wheeziness — The state of being wheezy.
- whim-whams — nervousness or fright (esp in the phrase give someone the whim-whams)
- whimsiness — the quality of being whimsy
- whip snake — any of several long, slender New World snakes of the genus Masticophis, the tail of which resembles a whip.
- whip-smart — extremely clever
- whip-stall — a stall during a vertical climb in which the nose of the airplane falls forward and downward in a whiplike movement.
- whiplashes — Plural form of whiplash.
- whippiness — flexibility
- whipsawing — Present participle of whipsaw.
- whipstalls — Plural form of whipstall.
- whipstitch — to sew with stitches passing over an edge, in joining, finishing, or gathering.
- whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.