10-letter words containing w, h
- fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
- fish wheel — a trap for catching salmon, consisting of a revolving wheel with attached nets set in a river so that it is turned by the current to capture the passing fish.
- flat white — a hot beverage consisting of espresso and nonfrothy steamed milk.
- floor show — a nightclub entertainment typically consisting of a series of singing, dancing, and often comedy acts.
- floorshows — Plural form of floorshow.
- flow chart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- flow sheet — flow chart (def 1).
- flowcharts — Plural form of flowchart.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- flyweights — Plural form of flyweight.
- followship — the practice of doing what other people suggest, rather than taking the lead
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- foreshower — One who predicts.
- fort worth — a city in N Texas.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- free throw — foul shot.
- freewheels — Plural form of freewheel.
- french way — cunnilingus or fellatio.
- frenchweed — the penny-cress, Thlaspi arvense.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- fright wig — a wig of wild, unruly hair, especially hair projecting outward in all directions, as worn by some clowns and comedians to give a comic effect of extreme fright or excitement.
- galsworthy — John, 1867–1933, English novelist and dramatist: Nobel Prize 1932.
- gearwheels — Plural form of gearwheel.
- ghost town — a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out.
- ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
- ghost-weed — snow-on-the-mountain.
- ghostwrite — (intransitive) To write under the name of another (especially literary works).
- go haywire — to behave or perform erratically
- go in with — share cost
- go without — be deprived of, not have
- good show! — an exclamation of appreciation and congratulations on another's accomplishment
- gopherwood — yellowwood.
- gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
- graywether — sarsen.
- grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
- grow light — a fluorescent light bulb designed to emit light of a wavelength conducive to plant growth.
- guess what — used to announce news
- hagerstown — a city in NW Maryland.
- hair weave — the process of hairweaving.
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half twist — Diving. a dive made by a half rotation of the body on its long axis. Compare full twist.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-white — of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- halfwitted — Foolish or stupid.
- hallowe'en — the evening of October 31; the eve of All Saints' Day; Allhallows Eve: observed especially by children in costumes who solicit treats, often by threatening minor pranks.