12-letter words containing o, s, w, e
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- fox software — (company) Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- 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.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
- 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.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- low-pressure — having or involving a low or below-normal pressure, as steam or water.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.