11-letter words containing a, w, s
- 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.
- 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.
- owl's claws — a perennial plant, Helenium hoopesii, native to W North America, having large yellow flowers.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- palsy-walsy — friendly or appearing to be friendly in a very intimate or hearty way: The police kept their eye on him because he was trying to get palsy-walsy with the security guard.
- passagework — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
- 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.
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- 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.
- red seaweed — any marine red alga, especially one of the genus Polysiphonia, having a reddish, much branched thallus.
- rose mallow — any of several plants of the genus Hibiscus, of the mallow family, having rose-colored flowers.
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- 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 weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
- 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.
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scape wheel — escape wheel.