12-letter words containing c, i, s, w
- screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
- screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
- scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- 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.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- showy orchis — a wild orchid, Orchis spectabilis, of eastern North America, having a spike of showy flowers, each with purple, pink, or white sepals and petals united into a galea and a white lip.
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
- stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
- sweet cicely — any of several plants, as a European plant, Myrrhis odorata, of the parsley family, used as a potherb, or certain related North American plants of the genus Osmorhiza.
- swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
- swiss cheese — a firm, pale-yellow cheese made originally in Switzerland, typically made from cow's milk and having many holes.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tapioca snow — snow pellets.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
- wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- will contest — legal proceedings to contest the authenticity or validity of a will.