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

  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • streetwards — towards or facing the street
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
  • swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
  • swan-necked — having a neck that is long and elegant like that of a swan
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • swedish ivy — any of various plants belonging to the genus Plectranthus, of the mint family, native to the Old World tropics, having rounded, scalloped or toothed leaves and widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • sweet cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • swivel-eyed — having or displaying extreme or fanatical views
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • the swedish — the people of Sweden collectively
  • the windies — the international cricket team of the West Indies
  • thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • twaite shad — a European shad
  • twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • unswallowed — not swallowed
  • unsweetened — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
  • unwitnessed — lacking the signature of a witness: an unwitnessed legal document.
  • upside down — with the upper part undermost.
  • vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
  • waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
  • wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
  • wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • waldsterben — the symptoms of tree decline in central Europe from the 1970s, considered to be caused by atmospheric pollution
  • walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
  • wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
  • water slide — flume
  • waterslides — Plural form of waterslide.
  • watt-second — a unit of energy equal to the energy of one watt acting for one second; the equivalent of one joule.
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