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12-letter words containing s, a, r, w

  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
  • runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
  • sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • 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
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
  • sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
  • slow-release — sustained-release.
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • 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.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • 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.
  • song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • sparrow hawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
  • sparrowgrass — asparagus.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
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