| HAMEWITH | • HAMEWITH adv. (Scots) homewards. |
| HAWFINCH | • hawfinch n. A large Eurasian finch (Coccothraustes coccothraustes), with a thick bill. • HAWFINCH n. a Eurasian finch. |
| HEREWITH | • herewith adv. With this; especially, with this letter or communication. • herewith adv. By this means. • herewith adv. In this way, hereby. |
| HIGHBROW | • highbrow adj. (Sometimes derogatory) Intellectually stimulating, highly cultured, sophisticated. • highbrow n. (Sometimes derogatory) A cultured or learned person or thing. • HIGHBROW n. an intellectual. |
| HIGHWAYS | • highways n. Plural of highway. • HIGHWAY n. a major road. |
| NOHOWISH | • nohowish adj. (Colloquial) Feeling out of sorts. • NOHOWISH adj. out of sorts. |
| PEISHWAH | • peishwah n. Alternative form of peshwa. • PEISHWAH n. a chief minister of the Mahrattas, also PEISHWA, PESHWA. |
| SHREWISH | • shrewish adj. Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman). • shrewish adj. Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew. • SHREWISH adj. ill-tempered. |
| WHINCHAT | • whinchat n. A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects. • WHINCHAT n. a small brown and buff songbird. |
| WHIPLASH | • whiplash n. The lash of a whip. • whiplash n. An injury to the upper spine connected to a violent jerk of the head in either a backward or forward… • whiplash n. (Figurative) An abrupt and unexpected change, or the resulting feeling of shock. |
| WHISHING | • whishing v. Present participle of whish. • WHISH v. to move with a hissing sound. |
| WHISHTED | • WHISHT v. (Scots) to keep silent, also WHEESH, WHEESHT. |
| WHITHERS | • whithers v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of whither. • WHITHER v. to blow strongly with a roaring sound, also WUTHER. |
| WHOLPHIN | • wholphin n. The fertile hybrid produced by cross-breeding a bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus (mother), and… • WHOLPHIN n. a hybrid of a whale and a dolphin. |
| WITHHELD | • withheld v. Simple past tense and past participle of withhold. • withheld adj. That one has withheld; kept from the possession or knowledge of another. • WITHHOLD v. to hold back. |
| WITHHOLD | • withhold v. (Transitive) To keep (a physical object that one has obtained) to oneself rather than giving it back to its owner. • withhold v. (Transitive) To keep (information, assent etc) to oneself rather than revealing it. • withhold v. (Intransitive) To stay back. (Can we add an example for this sense?) |