12-letter words containing s, i, m, w
- arm-twisting — persuasion
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- betweentimes — between other activities; during intervals
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- fishing worm — an earthworm.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in two minds — If you are in two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action. The expression of two minds is also used, especially in American English.
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- limp-wristed — Slang: Disparaging and Offensive. effeminate.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- show jumping — sport: horseriding event
- siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
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