12-letter words containing s, n, o, w
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- 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.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
- king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- 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.
- lesser-known — less widely known; less famous
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- man of straw — straw man.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- newport news — a seaport in SE Virginia: shipbuilding and ship-repair center.
- 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
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
- northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- of one's own — If you say that someone has a particular thing of their own, you mean that that thing belongs or relates to them, rather than to other people.
- 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.
- on one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.