13-letter words containing wh
- steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
- stern-wheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
- tell you what — You say 'Tell you what' to introduce a suggestion or offer.
- the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
- the whole kit — everything or everybody
- three-wheeler — a vehicle equipped with three wheels, as a tricycle, a motorcycle with a sidecar, or some small, experimental, or early-model cars.
- toothed whale — any whale of the suborder Odontoceti, having conical teeth in one or both jaws and feeding on fish, squid, etc.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
- whare wananga — a university
- what about/of — You use what about or what of when you introduce a new topic or a point which seems relevant to a previous remark.
- what have you — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- what it takes — the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation.
- what the heck — You say 'what the heck' to indicate that you do not care about a bad aspect of an action or situation.
- what the hell — the place or state of punishment of the wicked after death; the abode of evil and condemned spirits; Gehenna or Tartarus.
- what you will — whatever you like
- what's yours? — what would you like to drink?
- wheel of life — the symbol of the cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation.
- wheelbarrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of wheelbarrow.
- when pigs fly — If you say 'when pigs fly' after someone has said that something might happen, you are emphasizing that you think it is very unlikely.
- where it's at — (used to indicate a point or place occupied in space); in, on, or near: to stand at the door; at the bottom of the barrel.
- whereinsoever — in whatever respect
- whether or no — under any circumstances
- whidah (bird) — whydah (bird)
- whigmaleeries — a whim; notion.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipped cream — dairy cream that has been whisked
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- whippoorwills — Plural form of whippoorwill.
- whipstitching — Present participle of whipstitch.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- whistle dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistle-dixie — Also called Dixieland, Dixie Land. the southern states of the United States, especially those that were formerly part of the Confederacy.
- whistleblower — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white admiral — any color having components of both red and blue, such as lavender, especially one deep in tone.
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white crappie — See under crappie.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white feather — a symbol of cowardice.
- white knuckle — causing fear, apprehension, or panic: The plane made a white-knuckle approach to the fogged-in airport.
- white leather — leather treated with chemicals, as alum or salt; tawed leather.
- white melilot — a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.
- white mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
- 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 settler — a well-off incomer to a district who takes advantage of what it has to offer without regard to the local inhabitants