8-letter words containing w, h, i
- whisking — Present participle of whisk.
- whispers — Plural form of whisper.
- whispery — like a whisper: a soft, whispery voice.
- whistful — Peaceful, tranquil.
- whistled — Simple past tense and past participle of whistle.
- whistler — James (Abbott) McNeill [muh k-neel] /məkˈnil/ (Show IPA), 1834–1903, U.S. painter and etcher, in France and England after 1855.
- whistles — Plural form of whistle.
- whitaker — a male given name.
- whiteboy — (UK, US, slang, mildly, pejorative) A young Caucasian male.
- whitecap — a wave with a broken and foaming white crest.
- whitecup — a creeping South American plant, Nierembergia repens, of the nightshade family, having bell-shaped, lilac- or blue-tinged, cream-white flowers.
- whitefly — any of several plant-sucking, homopterous insects of the family Aleyrodidae, having the body and wings dusted with a white, powdery wax, and being widely distributed chiefly in tropical regions where they are often serious crop pests, as Dialeurodes citri (citrus whitefly) commonly occurring on citrus trees, and Trialeurodes vaporariorum (greenhouse whitefly) inhabiting greenhouses.
- whitelaw — William (Stephen Ian), 1st Viscount Whitelaw of Penrith. 1918–99, British Conservative politician; Home Secretary (1979–83); leader of the House of Lords (1983–88)
- whiteley — Brett. 1939–1992, Australian artist, who travelled widely in Europe and Asia; his works include landscapes, nudes, and portraits
- whiteman — Paul ("Pops") 1891–1967, U.S. orchestra conductor.
- whitened — Simple past tense and past participle of whiten.
- whitener — a preparation for making something white, as a bleach, dye, or polish: a bottle of shoe whitener.
- whiteout — Meteorology. a condition, found in polar regions, in which uniform illumination from snow on the ground and from a low cloud layer makes features of the landscape indistinguishable. a condition of heavily falling or blowing snow in which visibility is very poor.
- whitepot — a type of custard or milk pudding traditionally baked in a pot
- whitetip — The oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus.
- whitgift — John. ?1530–1604, English churchman; as archbishop of Canterbury (1583–1604) he tried to curb the influence of Puritanism
- whithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.
- whitings — Plural form of whiting.
- whitling — (UK, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
- whitlows — Plural form of whitlow.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- whitster — a person who whitens or bleaches clothes
- whittier — John Greenleaf [green-leef] /ˈgrinˌlif/ (Show IPA), 1807–92, U.S. poet.
- whittled — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittler — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whittle.
- whittret — a male weasel
- whiz-kid — of, relating to, or being a whiz kid: a whiz-kid sales manager.
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzing — to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
- whizzkid — Alternative spelling of whiz kid.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- wholphin — the hybrid offspring of a whale and a dolphin
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- whooping — Present participle of whoop.
- whoopsie — (British, childish) A piece of excrement.
- whoosies — whoosis.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whupping — to whip; beat or defeat decisively: The top seed whupped his opponent in three straight sets.
- whydunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.
- wifehood — the state of being a wife.
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.
- wild hog — variety of pig: boar
- wilf hey — (person) The person who originally developed Report Program Generator and coined the phrase GIGO (garbage in: garbage out). In 2004, after more than forty years in computing, he was writing for PC Plus magazine in the UK and doing Wilf's programmers workshop amongst other things. He died on 2007-01-01 after a long illness.
- winchell — Walter, 1897–1972, U.S. newspaper columnist and radio and television broadcaster.