12-letter words containing n, s, w
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- eensy-weensy — tiny; small.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- french twist — French roll.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- in two minds — If you are in two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action. The expression of two minds is also used, especially in American English.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.