0%

11-letter words containing n, e, t, w

  • on the wing — either of the two forelimbs of most birds and of bats, corresponding to the human arms, that are specialized for flight.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • other woman — a woman who is romantically or sexually involved with another woman's husband or lover, especially a woman who is having an affair with a married man.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • outweighing — Present participle of outweigh.
  • oversweeten — to sweeten too much
  • overwritten — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • pawn ticket — a receipt given for goods left with a pawnbroker.
  • peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
  • pennyweight — (in troy weight) a unit of 24 grains or 1/20 of an ounce (1.56 grams). Abbreviation: dwt, pwt.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
  • power point — electrical socket
  • power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
  • pre-written — a past participle of write.
  • pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • reinterview — to interview or question again
  • rent review — a provision in the lease of a business premise whereby the amount of the rent being paid is reconsidered at stated intervals, for example every three or five years
  • resort town — a holiday town
  • robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
  • round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
  • satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
  • screenwrite — (language)   A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
  • snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
  • snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • st. andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • state-owned — owned by the state; not privately owned
  • stateswoman — a woman who is experienced in the art of government.
  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?