| ANTIWHALING | • antiwhaling adj. Against the practice of whaling, the practice of hunting whales. • ANTIWHALING adj. opposed to whaling. |
| BULLWHACKED | • bullwhacked v. Simple past tense and past participle of bullwhack. • BULLWHACK v. to strike with a kind of heavy whip. |
| BUSHWHACKED | • bushwhacked v. Simple past tense and past participle of bushwhack. • BUSHWHACK v. to shoot from ambush. |
| BUSHWHACKER | • bushwhacker n. (US) One who travels through the woods, off the designated path. • bushwhacker n. (Australia) A person who lives in the bush, especially as a fugitive; a person who clears woods and bush country. • bushwhacker n. (US, historical) A guerrilla (of either side) during the American Civil War. |
| CLAWHAMMERS | • clawhammers n. Plural of clawhammer. • claw␣hammers n. Plural of claw hammer. • CLAWHAMMER n. a kind of hammer with a claw. |
| GOOGLEWHACK | • googlewhack n. A Google search result consisting of a single hit, in response to a search on two separate words. • GOOGLEWHACK n. an Internet search that produces one hit only. |
| KOWHAIWHAIS | • KOWHAIWHAI n. (Maori) a type of pattern in Maori decorative art. |
| PADDYWHACKS | • paddywhacks n. Plural of paddywhack. • paddywhacks v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of paddywhack. • PADDYWHACK n. a slap or smack, also PADDYWACK. |
| PARATANIWHA | • PARATANIWHA n. (Maori) a New Zealand plant with pink and red serrated leaves. |
| SPARROWHAWK | • sparrowhawk n. The Eurasian sparrowhawk, Accipiter nisus, a small, short-winged European hawk that preys on smaller birds. • sparrowhawk n. Any of numerous other relatively small Old World species of Accipiter, that prey on smaller birds or… • sparrowhawk n. Alternative form of sparrow hawk; the American kestrel, Falco sparverius, of similar size and habit. |
| WHAIKOREROS | • WHAIKORERO n. (Maori) formal speechmaking as forming part of the ceremonies at a marae. |
| WHARFINGERS | • wharfingers n. Plural of wharfinger. • WHARFINGER n. the keeper or owner of a wharf. |
| WHARFMASTER | • wharfmaster n. The supervisor in charge of a wharf. • WHARFMASTER n. one who controls a wharf. |
| WHATSERNAME | • whatsername n. (Colloquial) A placeholder for the name of a woman whose name the speaker can not bring to mind. • WHATSERNAME n. a girl or woman whose name is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked, also WHATSHERNAME. |
| WHATSISNAME | • whatsisname n. (Colloquial) A placeholder for the name of a man whose name the speaker cannot remember. • WHATSISNAME n. a man whose name is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked, also WHATSHISNAME. |
| WHATSOMEVER | • whatsomever adj. Archaic form of whatsoever. • WHATSOMEVER pron. (dialect) whatsoever. |
| WHILLYWHAED | • WHILLYWHA v. (Scots) to coax, wheedle, cajole, also WHILLYWHAW. |
| WHILLYWHAWS | • WHILLYWHAW v. (Scots) to coax, wheedle, cajole, also WHILLYWHA. |