12-letter words containing n, e, w, s, r
- snow thrower — snow blower.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- 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.
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
- sternwheeler — a boat propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
- sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
- unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
- underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
- unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- verner's law — the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- waterishness — the state of being waterish
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- waveringness — The quality or state of wavering.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- web designer — a person who plans, designs, creates, and often maintains websites.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point
- westerliness — Westerly position.
- western blot — a highly sensitive procedure for identifying and measuring the amount of a specific protein in a mixed extract, as in testing for AIDS virus protein in a blood sample: proteins are separated by gel electrophoresis and transferred to a special filter paper, on which the protein under investigation can be detected by a probe, as the binding of a labeled antibody.
- western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)