12-letter words containing s, e, g, w
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- rolling news — current affairs: continuous
- sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- sergei witte — Sergei Yulievich [sur-gey yool-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey yoo-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ ˈyul yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ˈyu lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1915, Russian statesman.
- 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.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shen congwen — 1902–1988, Chinese author.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spring water — water from natural underground source
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
- sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
- sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- swimmingness — tearfulness
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
- unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
- viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- wastage rate — the drop-out rate from a company, college, or other organization, especially before they have completed their education or training