Index of English words, starting with "wh"

(1) - Whinger (n.) A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon.

(1) - Whiningly (adv.) In a whining manner; in a tone of mean complaint.

(1) - Whinnied (imp. & p. p.) of Whinny

(1) - Whinny (a.) Abounding in whin, gorse, or furze.
(2) - Whinny (n.) The ordinary cry or call of a horse; a neigh.
(3) - Whinny (v. i.) To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh.

(1) - Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt.