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12-letter words containing w, h

  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • do away with — from this or that place; off: to go away.
  • doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
  • double-width — twice the usual width: double-wide mobile homes consisting of two sections bolted together.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • dual highway — divided highway.
  • dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
  • early hebrew — noting or pertaining to the alphabetical script used for the writing of Hebrew mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries b.c.
  • edwin hubble — Edwin Powell, 1889–1953, U.S. astronomer: pioneer in extragalactic research.
  • egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
  • englishwoman — adult female from England
  • escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
  • everywhither — (archaic,or,poetic) to everywhere.
  • fair-weather — used in or intended for fair weather only.
  • fall in with — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
  • fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
  • fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
  • ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
  • feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
  • fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
  • fishing worm — an earthworm.
  • flamethrower — a weapon, either mounted or portable, that sprays ignited incendiary fuel for some distance.
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flight arrow — an arrow having a conical or pyramidal head without barbs.
  • flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • 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.
  • four-wheeler — a four-wheel vehicle, especially a hackney carriage.
  • fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
  • freewheeling — operating in the manner of a freewheel.
  • 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.
  • get anywhere — to be successful
  • get off with — kiss
  • 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.
  • go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
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