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11-letter words containing a, n, s, w

  • 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.
  • ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
  • 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.
  • plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
  • rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
  • rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
  • ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
  • rawoop-snap — (language)   An early system on the IBM 1130.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
  • samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
  • sandwiching — two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between each pair.
  • sash window — A sash window is a window which consists of two frames placed one above the other. The window can be opened by sliding one frame over the other.
  • 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
  • scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
  • scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
  • 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.
  • shanty town — ghetto, slum
  • show around — guide round a new place
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
  • shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • slow-acting — working or acting slowly, not immediately
  • 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.
  • snow cannon — a device used to create and project artificial snow for skiing
  • snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
  • snow grains — precipitation consisting of white, opaque ice particles usually less than one millimeter in diameter.
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