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

  • the hell with — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
  • the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
  • the whole kit — everything or everybody
  • third worlder — a citizen of a Third World country.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
  • together with — combined with
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
  • twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
  • twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
  • weather strip — a thin strip of compressible material, such as spring metal, felt, etc, that is fitted between the frame of a door or window and the opening part to exclude wind and rain
  • weather-strip — to apply weather stripping to (something).
  • weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
  • weatherstrips — Plural form of weatherstrip.
  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • weigh in with — to introduce or contribute (an idea or opinion) to a discussion, argument, etc.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • weightlifters — Plural form of weightlifter.
  • weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • welsh terrier — one of a Welsh breed of terriers having a wiry, black-and-tan coat, resembling an Airedale but smaller.
  • welterweights — Plural form of welterweight.
  • west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
  • western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
  • what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
  • where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
  • whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
  • whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white feather — a symbol of cowardice.
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
  • white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
  • white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
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