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12-letter words containing i, r, s, h, w

  • athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
  • autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
  • berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
  • by-a-whiskerwhiskers, a beard.
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
  • cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
  • ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
  • fishing worm — an earthworm.
  • followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
  • french twist — French roll.
  • ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
  • ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
  • ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
  • greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
  • gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
  • hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
  • horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
  • interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
  • 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.
  • new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
  • oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • 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
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • 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.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • 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.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.

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