8-letter words containing w, h, n
- whitener — a preparation for making something white, as a bleach, dye, or polish: a bottle of shoe whitener.
- whitings — Plural form of whiting.
- whitling — (UK, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
- 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.
- 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.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whoreson — a bastard.
- 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.
- wightman — Hazel Hotchkiss, 1886–1974, U.S. tennis player.
- winchell — Walter, 1897–1972, U.S. newspaper columnist and radio and television broadcaster.
- winching — Present participle of winch.
- winchman — a man who operates a winch
- windhoek — a republic in SW Africa: a former German protectorate; a mandate of South Africa 1920–66; gained independence 1990. 318,261 sq. mi. (824,296 sq. km). Capital: Windhoek.
- windship — a ship propelled by wind; a sailing ship
- wineshop — a shop where wine is sold.
- winthrop — John, 1588–1649, English colonist in America: 1st governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony 1629–33, 1637–40, 1642–44, 1646–49.
- wishbone — a forked bone, formed by the fusion of the two clavicles, in front of the breastbone in most birds; furcula.
- witching — a person, now especially a woman, who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a sorceress. Compare warlock.
- withness — (philosophy) The quality of being or doing with something.
- withwind — a kind of bindweed, Convolvulus arvensis
- womanish — womanlike or feminine.
- wooshing — Present participle of woosh.
- worthing — to happen or betide: woe worth the day.
- wreathen — Twisted; made into a wreath.
- wrenched — to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violent twist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist.
- wrencher — One who, or that which, wrenches.
- writhing — to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain, violent effort, etc.