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11-letter words containing s, e, a, w

  • caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
  • cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
  • castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
  • casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
  • casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
  • cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
  • clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
  • coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
  • cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
  • cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
  • craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
  • crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
  • credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
  • curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
  • czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
  • daisy wheel — a component of a computer printer in the shape of a wheel with many spokes that prints characters using a disk with characters around the circumference as the print element
  • dewar flask — a type of vacuum flask, esp one used in scientific experiments to keep liquid air, helium, etc; Thermos
  • digger wasp — any of numerous solitary wasps of the family Sphecidae, which excavate nests in soil, wood, etc., and provision them with prey paralyzed by stinging.
  • dinnerwares — china, glasses, and silver used for table service.
  • disavowable — capable of being disavowed
  • dishwashers — Plural form of dishwasher.
  • down-easter — a full-rigged ship built in New England in the late 19th century, usually of wood and relatively fast.
  • downloaders — Plural form of downloader.
  • draftswomen — Plural form of draftswoman.
  • drawbridges — Plural form of drawbridge.
  • dumbwaiters — Plural form of dumbwaiter.
  • duniewassal — a gentleman, especially a cadet of a ranking family, among the Highlanders of Scotland.
  • east meadow — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • easter week — the week that begins with Easter Day and ends the following Saturday
  • ecowarriors — Plural form of ecowarrior.
  • enwrappings — any hidden things, both tangible and intangible
  • excise laws — laws relating to taxes on dutiable items
  • expressways — Plural form of expressway.
  • farawayness — the state of being faraway
  • farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
  • fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
  • first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
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