12-letter words containing s, e, a, w
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- elbow grease — physical effort
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- fox software — (company) Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- it takes two — If you say it takes two or it takes two to tango, you mean that a situation or argument involves two people and they are both therefore responsible for it.
- james edward — Stuart, James Francis Edward.
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
- jawless fish — cyclostome.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- just as well — fortunate