| ATHWARTSHIP | • athwartship adj. (Nautical) Oriented across the vessel sideways, i.e. in a direction at right angles to the fore-and-aft… • athwartship adv. Alternative form of athwartships. • ATHWARTSHIP adv. transverse to a ship, also ATHWARTSHIPS, THWARTSHIP. |
| DIPSWITCHES | • dipswitches n. Plural of dipswitch. • DIP␣switches n. Plural of DIP switch. • DIPSWITCH n. a switch for dipping headlights on a car. |
| PAPERWEIGHT | • paperweight n. A small, decorative, somewhat weighty object placed on one or more pieces of paper to keep them from fluttering away. • paperweight n. Any object used for this purpose. • paperweight n. (Slang) A useless piece of equipment. |
| PAPERWHITES | • paperwhites n. Plural of paperwhite. |
| PARATANIWHA | • PARATANIWHA n. (Maori) a New Zealand plant with pink and red serrated leaves. |
| PENNYWEIGHT | • pennyweight n. A unit of mass equal to 24 grains, or 1⁄20 of a troy ounce. • PENNYWEIGHT n. an old unit of weight, the twentieth part of an ounce. |
| PLAYWRIGHTS | • playwrights n. Plural of playwright. • PLAYWRIGHT n. a person who writes plays. |
| PLOWWRIGHTS | • plowwrights n. Plural of plowwright. • PLOWWRIGHT n. one who makes ploughs, also PLOUGHWRIGHT. |
| PRINTWHEELS | • printwheels n. Plural of printwheel. • PRINTWHEEL n. another name for daisywheel, a kind of printer. |
| SHIPWRIGHTS | • shipwrights n. Plural of shipwright. • SHIPWRIGHT n. a carpenter skilled in ship construction and repair. |
| STEWARDSHIP | • stewardship n. The rank or office of a steward. • stewardship n. The act of caring for or improving with time. • STEWARDSHIP n. the office, duties, and obligations of a steward. |
| THWARTSHIPS | • thwartships adv. Alternative form of athwartships. • THWARTSHIPS adv. across the ship, also ATHWARTSHIPS, THWARTSHIP. |
| WATCHSPRING | • watchspring n. The mainspring in a mechanical watch (timepiece). • WATCHSPRING n. the spring of a watch. |
| WHIPPETINGS | • WHIPPETING n. the sport of racing whippets. |
| WHIPPLETREE | • whippletree n. A wooden crossbar for a plough or carriage, pivoted in the middle, from which traces are fastened to a draught animal. • whipple-tree n. Alternative form of whippletree. • whipple␣tree n. Alternative form of whippletree. |
| WHIPSTALLED | • whipstalled v. Simple past tense and past participle of whipstall. • WHIPSTALL v. of an airplane, to stall causing the nose to whip forward and down. |
| WHISPERIEST | • WHISPERY adj. like a whisper. |
| WRITERSHIPS | • writerships n. Plural of writership. • WRITERSHIP n. the office of a writer. |