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11-letter words containing w, i, s, h

  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white sound — white noise.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
  • white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
  • white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
  • white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
  • white toast — toasted white bread
  • white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
  • whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
  • whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
  • whitefishes — Plural form of whitefish.
  • whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
  • whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
  • whitesmiths — Plural form of whitesmith.
  • whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
  • whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
  • whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
  • whitewashes — Plural form of whitewash.
  • whitewaters — a town in SE Wisconsin.
  • whitishness — The quality of being whitish.
  • whitsuntide — the week beginning with Whitsunday, especially the first three days of this week.
  • whittuesday — the day following Whitmonday.
  • whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
  • wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
  • wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
  • wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
  • widdershins — in a direction contrary to the natural one, especially contrary to the apparent course of the sun or counterclockwise: considered as unlucky or causing disaster.
  • wild radish — another name for white charlock
  • wimpishness — The state or quality of being wimpish.
  • wind chimes — mobile that makes a tinkling sound
  • wind-shaken — affected by windshake.
  • window sash — the frame holding the pane of a window.
  • window-shop — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • windshields — Plural form of windshield.
  • winterishly — In a way that is characteristic of winter.
  • wire-stitch — to stitch (the backs of gathered sections) by means of a machine that automatically forms staples from a continuous reel of wire.
  • wisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
  • wishfulness — The state or quality of being wishful; sometimes specifically wishful thinking.
  • wishy-washy — lacking in decisiveness; without strength or character; irresolute.
  • witch grass — a panic grass, Panicum capillare, having a bushlike compound panicle, common as a weed in North America.
  • witchcrafts — Plural form of witchcraft.
  • with a rush — suddenly and forcefully
  • with reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
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