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11-letter words starting with wh

  • whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
  • whirlybirds — Plural form of whirlybird.
  • whisk broom — a small, short-handled broom used chiefly to brush clothes.
  • whiskbrooms — Plural form of whiskbroom.
  • whiskerando — a man with extravagant whiskers
  • whiskerless — Without whiskers.
  • whiskeyfied — (of a person, voice, etc) affected by excessive whisky drinking
  • whiskeyjack — (US) Alternative form of whisky jack (gray jay, Canada jay).
  • whisperings — Plural form of whispering.
  • whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
  • whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • whistle pig — a woodchuck.
  • whistleable — Capable of being whistled.
  • whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
  • whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
  • whistlingly — with a whistle; in a whistling manner
  • whit monday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
  • whit sunday — the seventh Sunday after Easter, celebrated as a festival in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
  • white alder — sweet pepperbush.
  • white alert — (in military or civilian defense) an all-clear signal, directive, etc., indicating that the danger of air raid no longer exists.
  • white aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • white bacon — bacon (def 2).
  • white birch — the European birch, Betula pendula, yielding a hard wood.
  • white bread — bread baked with bleached flour
  • white bream — a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna
  • white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • white cloud — a small, brightly colored freshwater fish, Tanichthys albonubes, native to China: popular in home aquariums.
  • white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)
  • white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
  • white friar — a Carmelite friar: so called from the distinctive white cloak worn by the order.
  • white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
  • white goods — household appliances
  • white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
  • white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
  • white light — light perceived by the eye as having the same color as sunlight at noon.
  • white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
  • white magic — magic used for good purposes, especially to counteract evil (contrasted with black magic).
  • white metal — any of various light-colored alloys, as Babbitt metal or Britannia metal.
  • white meter — an electricity meter used to record the consumption of off-peak electricity
  • white night — a sleepless night.
  • white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
  • white pages — A directory service for locating individuals by name (by analogy with the telephone directory). The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as electronic mail addresses, telephone numbers and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. See Knowbot, Netfind, whois, X.500, finger.
  • white paper — paper bleached white.
  • white perch — a small game fish, Morone americana, greenish-gray above and silvery below, inhabiting streams along the Atlantic coast of the U.S.
  • white river — a river flowing SE from NW Arkansas into the Mississippi River. 690 miles (1110 km) long.
  • white sauce — a sauce made of butter, flour, seasonings, and milk or sometimes chicken or veal stock; béchamel.
  • white shark — great white shark.
  • white slave — a woman who is sold or forced into prostitution.
  • white sound — white noise.
  • white space — the unprinted area of a piece of printing, as of a poster or newspaper page, or of a portion of a piece of printing, as of an advertisement; blank space: White space is as effective in a layout as type.
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