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

  • nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • one-man show — a show with only one performer
  • owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
  • stanisław ii — surnamed Poniatowski. 1732–98, the last king of Poland (1764–95), during whose reign Poland was repeatedly invaded and partitioned (1772, 1791, 1795) by its neighbours: abdicated
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
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