| DOWNHAULS | • downhauls n. Plural of downhaul. • DOWNHAUL n. a rope for hauling down sails. |
| DOWNHILLS | • downhills n. Plural of downhill. • DOWNHILL n. a downward slope. |
| DOWNLIGHT | • downlight n. A light fixture installed in a hollow opening in a ceiling, concentrating the light in a downward direction. • downlight v. (Transitive) To illuminate from above. • DOWNLIGHT n. a lamp shining downwards. |
| ENWHEELED | • enwheeled v. Simple past tense and past participle of enwheel. • ENWHEEL v. (Shakespeare) to encircle. |
| HANDBLOWN | • handblown adj. (Glassmaking) Blown by hand, without the use of machinery. • HANDBLOWN adj. made by glassblowing and moulded by hand. |
| HANDTOWEL | • handtowel n. Alternative form of hand towel. • hand␣towel n. A small towel used for drying the hands or face. • HANDTOWEL n. a towel for wiping the hands. |
| HANDWHEEL | • handwheel n. (Mechanics) Any wheel worked by hand, whether used to allow leverage, as of a valve or a handbrake… • HANDWHEEL n. any wheel worked by hand; esp. one the rim of which serves as the handle by which a valve, car brake, or other part is adjusted. |
| HOLDDOWNS | • holddowns n. Plural of holddown. • hold-downs n. Plural of hold-down. • HOLDDOWN n. a clamp for holding an object in place. |
| HOWLROUND | • howlround n. (Electronics) A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its connected speakers. • howl-round n. (Television) feedback (high-pitched howling noise caused by a loop between microphone and speaker). • HOWLROUND n. a condition resulting in a howling noise when recording from a mike, also HOWLBACK. |
| SELDSHOWN | • SELDSHOWN adj. (Shakespeare) rarely shown. |
| WALDHORNS | • waldhorns n. Plural of waldhorn. • WALDHORN n. (German) a French valveless hunting horn. |
| WASHLANDS | • washlands n. Plural of washland. • WASHLAND n. an area of land flooded by a river. |
| WHEATLAND | • wheatland n. An area where wheat is produced. • Wheatland prop.n. A number of places in the United States… • WHEATLAND n. land on which wheat is grown. |
| WHEEDLING | • wheedling v. Present participle of wheedle. • wheedling adj. Coaxing, aiming to persuade. • wheedling n. The act of one who wheedles. |
| WHIRLWIND | • whirlwind n. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the… • whirlwind n. (Figuratively) A person or body of objects or events sweeping violently onward. • whirlwind adj. Rapid and minimal: a whirlwind tour, a whirlwind romance. |
| WINDCHILL | • windchill n. (Meteorology) The still-air temperature equivalent to a given combination of temperature and wind speed… • wind␣chill n. (Meteorology) A measure of how cold the atmosphere feels, taking not just actual temperature into account… • WINDCHILL n. the cooling effect that wind has as it blows on a surface. |
| WOLFHOUND | • wolfhound n. A dog of various breeds originally developed to hunt wolves. • WOLFHOUND n. any of several breeds of a large domestic dog. |