12-letter words containing w, h
- weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weight-train — to use weights to improve muscle performance
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- weightlifter — (weightlifting) A person who competes for maximum weight lifted in a series of specific lifts.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- well-behaved — to act in a particular way; conduct or comport oneself or itself: The ship behaves well.
- well-clothed — to dress; attire.
- well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
- well-handled — managed, directed, or completed with efficiency: a well-handled political campaign.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- well-weighed — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.
- well-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- welsh rabbit — a dish of melted cheese, usually mixed with ale or beer, milk, and spices, served over toast.
- welterweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a lightweight and a middleweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 147 pounds (67 kg).
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
- westinghouse — George, 1846–1914, U.S. inventor and manufacturer.
- wet strength — the relative resistance of paper to tearing when wet, resulting from the addition of resins during manufacture.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- whaler shark — a large voracious shark, Galeolamna macrurus, of E. Australian waters
- whaling port — a home port for whaling vessels.
- whaling ship — a ship engaged in whaling
- whare wanaga — a university
- what a lark! — how amusing!
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- whataboutery — (of two communities in conflict) the practice of repeatedly blaming the other side and referring to events from the past
- whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
- whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
- what…do with — to put or place
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- wheel window — a rose window having prominent radiating mullions.
- wheel wobble — an oscillation of the front wheels of a vehicle caused by a defect in the steering gear, unbalanced wheels, etc
- wheelbarrows — Plural form of wheelbarrow.
- wheeltappers — Plural form of wheeltapper.
- wheelwrights — Plural form of wheelwright.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- whereagainst — against which
- wherethrough — through which; because of
- wherewithall — Misspelling of wherewithal.
- wherewithals — Plural form of wherewithal.