12-letter words containing m, e, w, a
- raw material — material before being processed or manufactured into a final form.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
- saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- 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.
- siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
- swamp azalea — an azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern U.S., having fragrant, white to pink or sometimes red flowers.
- 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.
- sweet dreams — sleep well
- sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- team up with — join forces with
- time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
- to mean well — If you say that someone means well, you mean they are trying to be kind and helpful, even though they might be causing someone problems or upsetting them.
- town manager — an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government.
- trojan women — a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- waiting game — a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
- waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
- walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
- wall-mounted — hung on a wall
- walter mitty — an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life.
- war memorial — monument to dead soldiers
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
- warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
- warm-hearted — having or showing sympathy, affection, kindness, cordiality, etc.: a warm-hearted welcome.
- warmer-upper — something that provides one with invigorating warmth: Hot soup is a good warmer-upper after skiing.
- warmongering — the practices and principles of a warmonger.
- water bomber — an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires
- water hammer — the concussion and accompanying noise that result when a volume of water moving in a pipe suddenly stops or loses momentum.
- water meadow — a meadow kept fertile by flooding.
- water system — a river and all its branches.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- watermarking — Present participle of watermark.
- weather bomb — a type of extratropical cyclone characterized by a low pressure system in which the central barometric pressure drops at least 24 millibars in 24 hours, which can produce hurricane-force winds with very heavy rainfall or snow.
- weatherwoman — a woman who works as a weathercaster.
- weatherwomen — Plural form of weatherwoman.
- weaving mill — a mill where cloth is woven
- well managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-managed — to bring about or succeed in accomplishing, sometimes despite difficulty or hardship: She managed to see the governor. How does she manage it on such a small income?
- well-matched — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.