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11-letter words containing w, h, i, t, e

  • weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
  • weathergirl — a young woman who presents weather forecasts
  • weatherized — Simple past tense and past participle of weatherize.
  • weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
  • web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
  • weigh a ton — If you say that something weighs a ton, you mean that it is extremely heavy.
  • weight belt — a belt worn to control a diver's buoyancy under water, on which slotted lead weights can be slipped according to the diver's body size and weight and having a quick-release buckle for emergency discarding.
  • weight down — If you weight something down, you put something heavy on it or in it in order to prevent it from moving easily.
  • weight loss — slimming
  • weight room — weight-training gym
  • weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
  • welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
  • westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
  • wet machine — a machine for dewatering pulp.
  • wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
  • what a life — People say 'What a life' to indicate that they are unhappy or are having great difficulties.
  • whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
  • wheat field — area of land where wheat is cultivated
  • wheat ridge — a town in central Colorado, near Denver.
  • wheelwright — John, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • wherewithal — that with which to do something; means or supplies for the purpose or need, especially money: the wherewithal to pay my rent.
  • whiffletree — a crossbar, pivoted at the middle, to which the traces of a harness are fastened for pulling a cart, carriage, plow, etc.
  • whip-tailed — having a long, slender tail like a whip.
  • whippletree — whiffletree.
  • whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white birch — the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
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