12-letter words containing c, i, s, w
- acid washing — a process in which a denim garment is treated with a bleach solution containing chlorine-soaked stones so that the color becomes faded and the material is softer.
- anuszkiewicz — Richard Joseph, born 1930, U.S. op-art painter.
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- basic weight — basis weight.
- berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- circular saw — A circular saw is a round metal disk with a sharp edge which is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- french twist — French roll.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- 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.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- picture show — motion picture.
- 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.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- public works — government-funded construction
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- 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.
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