12-letter words containing s, e, w, d
- jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- leatherwoods — Plural form of leatherwood.
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- meadow grass — any grass of the genus Poa, especially P. pratensis, the Kentucky bluegrass.
- meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- 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 chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- presweetened — already sweetened
- renownedness — celebrated; famous.
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- 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
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- 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.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- 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.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.