12-letter words containing w, m, h
- monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
- multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- power hammer — a type of mechanical hammer operated by compressed air and used by blacksmiths, metalworkers, and manufacturers
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
- stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- team up with — join forces with
- thirty-twomo — a book size of about 3¼ × 5½ inches (8.3 × 14 cm), determined by printing on sheets that are folded to form 32 leaves or 64 pages. Symbol: 32mo, 32°.
- throw mud at — to slander; vilify
- underwhelmed — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- uniform with — having the same form, appearance, etc. as
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- warm-hearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- water hammer — the concussion and accompanying noise that result when a volume of water moving in a pipe suddenly stops or loses momentum.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
- weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
- weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
- weight limit — a limit on permitted weight
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- well-humored — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.
- well-thumbed — A book or magazine that is well-thumbed is creased and marked because it has been read so often.
- west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
- whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
- whigmaleerie — a whim; notion.
- whimperingly — In a whimpering way.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- white market — (in a system of rationing) the buying and selling of unused ration coupons at a fluctuating legal price based on the supply of and demand for the rationed commodity.
- white marlin — a small marlin, Tetrapterus albidus, inhabiting the western Atlantic Ocean, pale blue above and silvery below.
- white matter — nerve tissue, especially of the brain and spinal cord, which primarily contains myelinated fibers and is nearly white in color. Compare gray matter (def 1).
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- whole number — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).