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

  • passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
  • 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
  • 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
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • 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.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • 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 bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • 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.
  • seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • 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
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • show the way — guide
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
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