12-letter words containing a, w, s
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
- java sparrow — a small grey-and-pink finchlike Indonesian weaverbird, Padda oryzivora: a popular cage bird
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- just as well — fortunate
- kepler's law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- lark sparrow — a North American sparrow, Chondestes grammacus, having a distinctive brown-and-white facial pattern.
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawn sleeves — (used with a plural verb) the sleeves of lawn forming part of the dress of an Anglican bishop.
- lawyer's wig — the shaggy ink-cap
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- least weasel — a weasel, Mustela nivalis, of northern regions, that grows to a length of about 6 inches (15 cm).
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- man of straw — straw man.
- marsh mallow — an Old World mallow, Althaea officinalis, having pink flowers, found in marshy places.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- marshmallows — Plural form of marshmallow.
- marshmallowy — Similar to a marshmallow.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- meteor swarm — any large number of meteoroids moving in parallel paths.
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.