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12-letter words containing h, a, w, i

  • 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.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
  • straightways — in a direct course
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • swainishness — loutishness
  • 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.
  • take a whizz — to urinate
  • take up with — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
  • team up with — join forces with
  • 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.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
  • walk spanish — to advance or travel on foot at a moderate speed or pace; proceed by steps; move by advancing the feet alternately so that there is always one foot on the ground in bipedal locomotion and two or more feet on the ground in quadrupedal locomotion.
  • walking fish — any of various fishes able to survive and move about for short periods of time on land, as the mudskipper or climbing perch.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • wall hanging — a tapestry, carpet, or similar object hung against a wall as decoration; arras.
  • warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
  • warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
  • wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
  • washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
  • washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
  • washing soda — sodium carbonate (def 2).
  • washingtonia — either of two fan palm species from the genus Washingtonia
  • watchability — detectable; apparent.
  • watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • waterishness — the state of being waterish
  • watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
  • wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
  • wearing thin — If someone's patience, for example, is wearing thin, they are beginning to become impatient or angry with someone.
  • weather girl — A weather girl is a young woman who presents weather forecasts at regular times on television or radio.
  • weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
  • weather tide — a tide moving against the direction of the wind.
  • weather-wise — skillful in predicting weather.
  • weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
  • weathertight — secure against wind, rain, etc.
  • weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
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