12-letter words containing d, o, w
- putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
- quieten down — If someone or something quietens down or if you quieten them down, they become less noisy or less active.
- radio window — the range of wavelengths at which the earth's atmosphere is transparent to radio waves.
- rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- redwood city — a city in W California.
- renownedness — celebrated; famous.
- review board — panel appointed to reconsider a matter
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- road warrior — a person who travels extensively, as on business trips
- rollaway bed — a bed on castors
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
- round window — a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
- that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands