12-letter words containing s, c, r, e, w
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- snow scooter — a small open powered vehicle mounted on skis for travelling on snow
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- sweet cherry — a cherry tree, Prunus avium, characterized by reddish-brown bark and a pyramidal manner of growth.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- 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.
- web services — (standard, programming, software) A family of standards promoted by the W3C for working with other business, developers and programs through open protocols, languages and APIs, including XML, Simple Object Access Protocol, WSDL and UDDI.
- well-secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
- wesley clark — (person) One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west chester — a city in SE Pennsylvania.
- west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
- 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)
- whencesoever — From whatever place or source.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- winter cress — any cress belonging to the genus Barbarea, of the mustard family, having lyrate leaves and yellow flowers.
- wire cutters — tool: pliers
- wire service — agency that sends news stories
- wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
- woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
- wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
- woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
- woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
- work surface — A work surface is a flat surface, usually in a kitchen, which is easy to clean and on which you can do things such as prepare food.
- worried sick — extremely anxious about sb or sth
- wretchedness — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
- writeacourse — (language) A CAI language for IBM 360.
- writing case — a portable folder with compartments for holding writing materials