12-letter words containing w, h, s
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- french twist — French roll.
- frost hollow — a depression in a hilly area in which cold air collects, becoming very cold at night
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- hollywoodish — of, relating to, or resembling Hollywood, Hollywoodians, or the products of Hollywood and the motion-picture industry.
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- lightweights — Plural form of lightweight.
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.