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

  • newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
  • 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
  • norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
  • oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
  • owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
  • owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
  • owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
  • 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).
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • power supply — power supply unit
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • 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.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • 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.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • 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.
  • 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-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • 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-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • servile work — work of a physical nature that is forbidden on Sundays and on certain holidays
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • 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.
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