10-letter words containing wh
- or whoever — You say or whoever to refer vaguely to another person or organization, especially when you are not sure if you have mentioned the right person or organization.
- otherwhere — elsewhere.
- otherwhile — at another time or other times.
- paddywhack — Informal. a spanking.
- paperwhite — polyanthus (sense 2)
- party whip — whip (def 21).
- poor white — a member of a class of white people, especially of the southern U.S., having low social status and little or no money, property, or education. See also white trash.
- printwheel — daisy wheel.
- pussy-whip — (of a woman) to dominate or control (a romantic partner); henpeck.
- rear wheel — any wheel at the back of a motor vehicle
- red kowhai — parrot's-bill.
- scapewheel — escape wheel.
- side-wheel — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- snow-white — white as snow.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- solo whist — a variety of whist in which each player can offer to play any of seven specified bids.
- somewhence — from somewhere
- somewheres — in or at some place not specified, determined, or known: They live somewhere in Michigan.
- spur wheel — spur gear.
- sternwheel — a paddle wheel at the stern of a vessel.
- stock whip — a whip with a long lash and a short handle, as used to herd cattle
- tawheowheo — a broadleaved evergreen, Quintinia serrata, of New Zealand's North Island
- thumbwheel — a small, partially exposed wheel that can be turned with a thumb or finger and is found on various devices such as computers or instruments
- underwhelm — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- waterwheel — a wheel or turbine turned by the weight or momentum of water and used to operate machinery.
- whaikorero — the art of formal speech-making
- whale calf — the young of a whale
- whalebacks — Plural form of whaleback.
- whaleboats — Plural form of whaleboat.
- whalebones — Plural form of whalebone.
- wharf shed — a building located on or near a pier (piershed) or wharf (wharf shed) used for short-term storage of cargo in transit.
- wharfinger — a person who owns or has charge of a wharf.
- what about — You use what about at the beginning of a question when you make a suggestion, offer, or request.
- what goes? — what's happening?
- what price — You use what price in front of a word or expression that refers to something happening when you want to ask how likely it is to happen. You usually do this to emphasize either that it is very likely or very unlikely.
- what then? — what would happen in that case?
- what's up? — If you say to someone 'What's up?' or if you tell them what's up, you are asking them or telling them what is wrong or what is worrying them.
- whatabouts — what one is doing generally; things that are occupying someone
- whatsaname — Any object whose name one does not know or cannot remember.
- whatsoever — At all (used for emphasis).
- wheat beer — any of various beers brewed using a mixture of wheat malt and barley malt
- wheat cake — a pancake made of wheat flour.
- wheat germ — the embryo or nucleus of the wheat kernel, used in or on foods as a concentrated source of vitamins.
- wheat pool — (in Western Canada) a cereal farmers' cooperative
- wheat rust — any of several diseases of wheat caused by rust fungi of the genus Puccinia.
- wheatfield — A wheat field; a field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
- wheatgrass — any of several wheatlike grasses of the genus Agropyron, grown for forage in the western U.S.
- wheatstone — Sir Charles, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.
- wheatworms — Plural form of wheatworm.
- wheel arch — The wheel arch is the semicircular part positioned above the wheel of a vehicle.