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12-letter words containing a, s, t, r, w

  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • raoult's law — the principle that the fraction by which the vapor pressure of a solvent is lowered by the addition of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolytic solute is equal to the mole fraction of the solute in the solution.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • 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.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
  • straightways — in a direct course
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • sweaterdress — a knitted, woollen dress
  • sweet dreams — sleep well
  • sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
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