9-letter words containing wh
- white lie — a minor, polite, or harmless lie; fib.
- white oak — a town in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- white out — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- white owl — snowy owl
- white rat — an albino variety of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus, used in biological experiments.
- white rot — a decay of wood caused by lignase-producing fungi, especially Phanerochaete chrysosporium.
- white sea — an arm of the Arctic Ocean, in the NW Russian Federation in Europe. About 36,000 sq. mi. (93,240 sq. km).
- white tie — men's formal dress
- white wax — a yellowish-white, somewhat translucent, tasteless solid, prepared by bleaching beeswax, used chiefly in pharmacy.
- white-ant — to undermine or subvert from within.
- white-eye — any of numerous small, chiefly tropical Old World songbirds of the family Zosteropidae, most of which have a ring of white feathers around the eye: several species are endangered.
- white-hot — extremely hot.
- white-tie — requiring that guests wear formal attire, especially that men wear white bow ties with formal evening dress: a white-tie embassy reception.
- whiteacre — an arbitrary name for a piece of land used for purposes of supposition in legal argument or the like (often distinguished from blackacre).
- whitebait — a young sprat or herring.
- whitebark — The North American pine Pinus albicaulis, found in mountainous and subalpine regions, often as krummholz.
- whitebass — a freshwater fish, Morone chrysops, of the bass family Moronidae, native to North American lakes and rivers
- whitebeam — a European tree, Sorbus aria, of the rose family, having leathery leaves, showy, white flowers, and mealy, orange-red or scarlet fruit.
- whiteboys — a secret agrarian peasant organization, active in Ireland during the early 1760s, whose members wore white shirts for recognition on their night raids to destroy crops, barns, and other property in redressing grievances against landlords and protesting the paying of tithes.
- whitecaps — Plural form of whitecap.
- whitecoat — a baby seal, usually less than four weeks old and still having its initial white fur.
- whitecomb — a fungal disease infecting the combs of certain fowls
- whitedamp — a poisonous coal-mine gas composed chiefly of carbon monoxide.
- whiteface — a Hereford.
- whitefish — any of several fishes of the family Coregonidae, inhabiting northern waters of North America and Eurasia, similar to the trout but having a smaller mouth and larger scales. Compare lake whitefish, round whitefish.
- whitehall — Also called Whitehall Palace. a former palace in central London, England, originally built in the reign of Henry III: execution of Charles I, 1649.
- whitehead — Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
- whiteline — codline.
- whitelist — a list of novels, motion pictures, etc., deemed suitable for juveniles, members of a particular faith, or other specified groups of individuals.
- whiteners — Plural form of whitener.
- whiteness — the quality or state of being white.
- whitening — a preparation for making something white; whiting.
- whiteouts — Plural form of whiteout.
- whiteside — The goldeneye.
- whitetail — A deer, Odocoileus virginianus, family Cervidae, perhaps the most popular game animal in North America.
- whitewall — a rubber tire for an automobile, bicycle, etc., whose sidewall is colored white.
- whiteware — white earthenware
- whitewash — a composition, as of lime and water or of whiting, size, and water, used for whitening walls, woodwork, etc.
- whiteweed — Oxeye daisy.
- whitewing — a person who wears a white uniform, especially a public street cleaner.
- whitewood — any of numerous trees, as the tulip tree or the linden, yielding a white or light-colored wood.
- whithered — Simple past tense and past participle of whither.
- whittaker — Charles Evans, 1901–73, U.S. jurist: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1957–62.
- whittawer — a person who converts skins into white leather; a tawer
- whittling — British Dialect. a knife, especially a large one, as a carving knife or a butcher knife.
- whitworth — Kathrynne Ann ("Kathy") born 1939, U.S. golfer.
- whiz-bang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizz-kid — If you refer to a young person as a whizz-kid, you mean that they have achieved success at a young age because they are very clever and very good at something, especially making money.
- whizzbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- who cares — I don't care