11-letter words starting with wh
- white stick — a walking stick used by a blind person for feeling the way: painted white as a sign to others that the person is blind
- white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
- white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
- white toast — toasted white bread
- white trash — a member of the class of poor whites, especially in the southern U.S.
- white volta — a river in W Africa, in Ghana: a branch of the Volta River. About 550 miles (885 km) long. Compare Volta (def 2).
- white water — fast-moving foamy water
- white wavey — See under wavey.
- white whale — beluga (def 2).
- white witch — a witch who uses magic for benevolent purposes or without malicious intent
- white-bread — pertaining to or characteristic of the white middle class; bourgeois: a typical white-bread suburban neighborhood.
- white-faced — having a white or pale face.
- white-glove — meticulous; painstaking; minute: a white-glove inspection.
- white-robed — clothed in a white robe.
- whiteboards — Plural form of whiteboard.
- whiteboyism — the principles or conduct of the Whiteboys
- whitechapel — a district in E London, England.
- whitefeller — (Australia) A white settler in Australia; a non-Aboriginal Australian; often used attributively.
- whitefishes — Plural form of whitefish.
- whitefriars — a district in central London, England.
- whiteprints — Plural form of whiteprint.
- whitesmiths — Plural form of whitesmith.
- whitethorns — Plural form of whitethorn.
- whitethroat — any of several small songbirds having a throat that is white, especially an Old World warbler, Sylvia communis.
- whitewashed — Simple past tense and past participle of whitewash.
- whitewasher — One who, or that which, whitewashes.
- whitewashes — Plural form of whitewash.
- whitewaters — a town in SE Wisconsin.
- whitherward — toward what place; in what direction.
- whitishness — The quality of being whitish.
- whitleather — white leather.
- whitley bay — a resort in NE England, in North Tyneside unitary authority, Tyne and Wear, on the North Sea. Pop: 36 544 (2001)
- whitlowwort — any of several small, tufted plants belonging to the genus Paronychia, of the pink family, native to temperate and warm regions, having opposite or whorled leaves and tiny, greenish flowers.
- whitsuntide — the week beginning with Whitsunday, especially the first three days of this week.
- whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
- whittuesday — the day following Whitmonday.
- whodunnitry — the style or genre of novels, plays, etc concerned with crime
- whole blood — blood directly from the body, from which none of the components have been removed, used in transfusions.
- whole cloth — pure fabrication: fiction, invention
- whole snipe — the common snipe. See under snipe (def 1).
- whole-grain — of or being natural or unprocessed grain containing the germ and bran.
- whole-wheat — prepared with the complete wheat kernel.
- wholegrains — Wholegrains are the grains of cereals such as wheat and maize that have not been processed.
- wholesalers — Plural form of wholesaler.
- wholesaling — the sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers or jobbers, for resale (opposed to retail).
- wholesomely — In a wholesome manner.
- wholesomest — Superlative form of wholesome.
- wholestitch — a type of stitch producing an effect similar to woven cloth
- whoop it up — a loud cry or shout, as of excitement or joy.
- whoop-de-do — lively and noisy festivities; merrymaking: New Year's Eve whoop-de-do.