13-letter words containing w, h
- white wedding — A white wedding is a wedding where the bride wears white and the ceremony takes place in a church.
- white-knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- white-livered — lacking courage; cowardly; lily-livered.
- white-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
- whitefish bay — a city in SE Wisconsin, N of Milwaukee.
- whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
- whithersoever — Wherever.
- whitlow grass — any of various plants of the genera Draba and Erophila, once thought to cure whitlows: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
- who-does-what — (of a dispute, strike, etc) relating to the separation of kinds of work performed by different trade unions
- whole brother — a brother whose parents are the same as one's own.
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wholesomeness — The state of being wholesome.
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- whoremasterly — of or relating to the character of a whoremaster
- whoremistress — a female owner or keeper of a brothel
- whydah (bird) — any of several chiefly brown-and-black, African passerine birds (family Ploceidae): the male has long, drooping tail feathers during the breeding season
- wichita falls — a city in N Texas.
- wideawake hat — fully awake; with the eyes wide open.
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- wild hyacinth — any of several plants having usually blue flowers resembling those of a hyacinth, as Camassia scilloides, of the central U.S., or Triteleia hyacinthina, of western North America.
- wilhelm wundt — Wilhelm Max [vil-helm mahks] /ˈvɪl hɛlm ˈmɑks/ (Show IPA), 1832–1920, German physiologist and psychologist.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- willing horse — a person prepared to work hard
- winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
- windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
- windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winter cherry — Also called Chinese lantern plant. a Eurasian ground cherry, Physalis alkekengi, of the nightshade family, bearing fruit enclosed in a showy, orange-red, inflated calyx.
- winter squash — any of several varieties of Cucurbita maxima or C. moschata that mature in late autumn and are used, when ripe, as a vegetable.
- wishbone boom — a boom on a sailboard having two arms that are joined at the mast and at the foot of the sail. The windsurfer holds onto it for support and to steer the sailboard
- witches' brew — a potent magical concoction supposedly prepared by witches.
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- with any luck — You can add with luck or with any luck to a statement to indicate that you hope that a particular thing will happen.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with impunity — unpunished
- with interest — plus money owed
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- with pleasure — gladly, willingly
- with the best — as ably as the most able
- withdrawnness — The state or condition of being withdrawn or isolated.
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within limits — If you add within limits to a statement, you mean that it is true or applies only when talking about reasonable or normal situations.
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- withlacoochee — a river in central Florida, flowingN and W to the Gulf of Mexico. 160 miles (257 km) long.
- without cease — without stopping; incessantly
- without demur — If you do something without demur, you do it immediately and without making any protest.
- without doubt — to be uncertain about; consider questionable or unlikely; hesitate to believe.
- without tears — presented so as to be easily assimilated
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.