11-letter words containing s, e, w, l
- statute law — statutory law.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
- still water — a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
- stokes' law — the law that the force that retards a sphere moving through a viscous fluid is directly proportional to the velocity of the sphere, the radius of the sphere, and the viscosity of the fluid.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
- swage block — an iron block containing holes and grooves of various sizes, used for heading bolts and shaping objects not easily worked on an anvil.
- swallowable — to take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action, as food, drink, or other substances.
- swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
- swamp maple — red maple.
- swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
- swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
- 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.
- sweet basil — any of several aromatic herbs belonging to the genus Ocimum, of the mint family, as O. basilicum (sweet basil) having purplish-green ovate leaves used in cooking.
- sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- swingeingly — by way of swingeing
- swingletree — a whiffletree.
- switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
- 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
- swivelblock — a block that supports a swivel
- swollenness — a past participle of swell.
- talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
- the gallows — execution by hanging
- the willies — nervousness, jitters, or fright (esp in the phrase give (or get) the willies)
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- tin whistle — A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. You play the tin whistle by blowing into it. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music.
- torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
- townspeople — residents of a town
- trelliswork — latticework.
- trestlework — a structural system composed of trestles.
- twelve step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- twelve-step — of or based on a program for recovery from addiction originating with Alcoholics Anonymous and providing 12 progressive levels toward attainment.
- twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
- unswallowed — not swallowed
- unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
- waffle slab — a reinforced-concrete floor and roof construction employing a square grid of deep ribs with coffers in the interstices.
- wages clerk — a worker in an office who calculates staff wages
- 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).