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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
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