11-letter words containing a, n, s, w, e
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- kwasniewski — Aleksander [ah-lek-sahn-der] /ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1954, Polish journalist and politician: president of Poland 1995–.
- law student — sb who studies legal system
- lawlessness — contrary to or without regard for the law: lawless violence.
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
- megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
- money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
- new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- new realism — neorealism.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- news reader — (messaging) A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
- newsagent's — a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snell's law — the law that, for a ray incident on the interface of two media, the sine of the angle of incidence times the index of refraction of the first medium is equal to the sine of the angle of refraction times the index of refraction of the second medium.
- snow banner — snow being blown off a mountaintop.