12-letter words containing w, h
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- by wholesale — at wholesale
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- cashew apple — the soft, swollen, pear-shaped stalk of the cashew tree, to which a cashew nut is attached: used in preserves and wine.
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- center wheel — the wheel driving the minute and hour hands of a timepiece.
- chair warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- checkweigher — a person or machine that measures the weight of commodities on a production line or in a colliery
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- chew the cud — to reflect or think over something
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chicken hawk — any of various hawks, esp. an accipiter, that prey, or are reputed to prey, on barnyard fowl
- chicken wire — Chicken wire is a type of thin wire netting.
- childcrowing — a disease which causes spasms of the vocal cords
- chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
- clam chowder — chowder containing clams
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
- cockthrowing — the sport of knocking down, or killing, a cock that is tied to a post
- collide with — If a vehicle collides with another vehicle or a person, it hits something or someone that is traveling in a different direction.
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- counterweigh — counterbalance
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- creditworthy — A creditworthy person or organization is one who can safely be lent money or allowed to have goods on credit, for example because in the past they have always paid back what they owe.
- cringeworthy — Causing feelings of embarrassment or awkwardness.
- crowned head — a monarch