9-letter words containing w, h, s
- hideaways — Plural form of hideaway.
- highbrows — Plural form of highbrow.
- hold sway — have influence
- hollowest — Superlative form of hollow.
- holy wars — [Usenet, but may predate it] flame wars over religious issues. The paper by Danny Cohen that popularised the terms big-endian and little-endian was entitled "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace". Other perennial Holy Wars have included Emacs vs. vi, my personal computer vs. everyone else's personal computer, ITS vs. Unix, Unix vs. VMS, BSD Unix vs. USG Unix, C vs. Pascal, C vs. Fortran, etc., ad nauseam. The characteristic that distinguishes holy wars from normal technical disputes is that in a holy wars most of the participants spend their time trying to pass off personal value choices and cultural attachments as objective technical evaluations. See also theology.
- home news — news of events in the home country, as opposed to foreign news
- hometowns — Plural form of hometown.
- homewards — Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- homewares — (chiefly, British) Furnishings for the home, such as furniture and cushions.
- honeworts — Plural form of honewort.
- honeydews — Plural form of honeydew.
- hoodwinks — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoodwink.
- hookworms — Plural form of hookworm.
- hoosegows — Plural form of hoosegow.
- hornworms — Plural form of hornworm.
- hornworts — Plural form of hornwort.
- horseweed — a North American composite weed, Erigeron canadensis, having narrow, hairy leaves and clusters of very small greenish-white flowers.
- horsewhip — a whip for controlling horses.
- horsewood — A West Indian tree, Calliandra latifolia, with showy crimson blossoms.
- hose down — spray sth clean
- houseware — Homeware.
- housewife — Sometimes Offensive. a married woman who manages her own household, especially as her principal occupation.
- housewive — (transitive) To manage with skill and economy.
- housework — the work of cleaning, cooking, etc., to be done in housekeeping.
- howitzers — Plural form of howitzer.
- howsoever — to whatsoever extent or degree.
- hypernews — A Hypertext system from the Turing Institute Glasgow, based on NeWS.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- ingrowths — Plural form of ingrowth.
- irish yew — a variety of yew, Taxus baccata stricta, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having upright branches and dark green foliage with color variations.
- isherwood — Christopher (William Bradshaw) [brad-shaw] /ˈbræd ʃɔ/ (Show IPA), 1904–86, English poet, novelist, and playwright; in the U.S. since 1938.
- jewelfish — a brightly colored cichlid fish, Hemichromis bimaculatus, native to Africa: popular in home aquariums.
- jewfishes — Plural form of jewfish.
- jobsworth — (chiefly, British) A minor worker who refuses to be flexible in the application of rules to help a client or customer.
- johnstown — a city in SW Pennsylvania: disastrous flood 1889.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kiswahili — Swahili (def 2).
- know-hows — knowledge of how to do something; faculty or skill for a particular activity; expertise: Designing a computer requires a lot of know-how.
- leash law — a local ordinance requiring that dogs be leashed when not on their owners' property.
- low heels — shoes which have relatively low heels
- lowlights — Plural form of lowlight.
- marrowish — Similar to a marrow.
- marshwort — A small, white-flowered plant, of the genus Apium, that grows in marshy habitats.
- mathewson — Christopher ("Christy") 1880–1925, U.S. baseball player.
- mathworks — The MathWorks, Inc.
- mawkishly — In a mawkish manner.
- mess with — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
- misgrowth — an abnormal or distorted growth
- mishawaka — a city in N Indiana, near South Bend.
- mold wash — a coating applied in liquid form to walls of a mold cavity.