8-letter words starting with wh
- whiteout — Meteorology. a condition, found in polar regions, in which uniform illumination from snow on the ground and from a low cloud layer makes features of the landscape indistinguishable. a condition of heavily falling or blowing snow in which visibility is very poor.
- whitepot — a type of custard or milk pudding traditionally baked in a pot
- whitetip — The oceanic whitetip shark, Carcharhinus longimanus.
- whitgift — John. ?1530–1604, English churchman; as archbishop of Canterbury (1583–1604) he tried to curb the influence of Puritanism
- whithers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither.
- whitings — Plural form of whiting.
- whitling — (UK, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
- whitlows — Plural form of whitlow.
- whitrack — a weasel; ermine or stoat.
- whitster — a person who whitens or bleaches clothes
- whittier — John Greenleaf [green-leef] /ˈgrinˌlif/ (Show IPA), 1807–92, U.S. poet.
- whittled — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittler — to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife.
- whittles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whittle.
- whittret — a male weasel
- whiz-kid — of, relating to, or being a whiz kid: a whiz-kid sales manager.
- whizbang — Military. a small, high-speed shell whose sound as it flies through the air arrives almost at the same instant as its explosion.
- whizzing — to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
- whizzkid — Alternative spelling of whiz kid.
- whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
- wholphin — the hybrid offspring of a whale and a dolphin
- whomever — Used instead of “ whoever ” as the object of a verb or preposition.
- whomp up — a loud, heavy blow, slap, bang, or the like: He fell with an awful whomp.
- whompage — (rare humorous slang) Whomping or whomping on; acts of whomping or whomping on, taken collectively.
- whomping — Present participle of whomp.
- whoopers — Plural form of whooper.
- whooping — Present participle of whoop.
- whoopsie — (British, childish) A piece of excrement.
- whooshed — Simple past tense and past participle of whoosh.
- whooshes — Plural form of whoosh.
- whoosies — whoosis.
- whoppers — Plural form of whopper.
- whopping — very large of its kind; thumping: We caught four whopping trout.
- whoredom — the activity or state of whoring.
- whoreson — a bastard.
- whosever — of whomever
- whupping — to whip; beat or defeat decisively: The top seed whupped his opponent in three straight sets.
- whydunit — A type of detective story in which the focus is not on who committed the crime, but what were their motives for committing it.