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12-letter words containing o, w, a, t

  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • show the way — guide
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • sweat it out — wait tensely
  • 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 orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  • take to wife — to marry (a woman)
  • talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm
  • throw mud at — to slander; vilify
  • to draw lots — If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.
  • to hold sway — If someone or something holds sway, they have great power or influence over a particular place or activity.
  • to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
  • 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.
  • to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
  • to walk tall — If you say that someone walks tall, you mean that they behave in a way that shows that they have pride in themselves and in what they are doing.
  • toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • towaway zone — See example at towaway.
  • town manager — an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government.
  • tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
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