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13-letter words containing w, i, t, h, n

  • wedding chest — an ornamented chest for a trousseau.
  • weigh in with — to introduce or contribute (an idea or opinion) to a discussion, argument, etc.
  • weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • weightlifting — the act, art, or sport of lifting barbells of given poundages in a prescribed manner, as a competitive event or conditioning exercise.
  • weights bench — a piece of equipment for use by someone who is weight-training
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • western hindi — the vernacular of the western half of the Hindi-speaking area in India: the basis of Hindustani and of literary Hindi and Urdu.
  • whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
  • whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
  • white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
  • white pudding — (in Britain) a kind of sausage made like black pudding but without pigs' blood
  • white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
  • white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
  • white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
  • 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-slaving — traffic in white slaves.
  • whitesmithing — The trade of a whitesmith.
  • 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.
  • winding sheet — shroud (def 1).
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
  • wordsworthianWilliam, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
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