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11-letter words containing s, t, o, w

  • first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • follow shot — Also, following shot. Movies, Television. a traveling shot made as the camera moves along with the subject: a follow shot of the buffalo stampede, taken from a low-flying helicopter.
  • follow suit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • forty winks — a short nap.
  • forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
  • frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
  • ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
  • go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
  • groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
  • growthiness — the quality of being growthy
  • home waters — territorial waters
  • honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
  • house white — a white wine sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • knockwursts — Plural form of knockwurst.
  • law society — association of lawyers
  • least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative
  • lister-plow — Also called lister plow, middlebreaker, middlebuster. a plow with a double moldboard, used to prepare the ground for planting by producing furrows and ridges.
  • low-density — having a low concentration.
  • low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
  • lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
  • lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
  • master-work — masterpiece.
  • masterworks — Plural form of masterwork.
  • meadowsweet — any plant belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, especially S. latifolia, having white or pink flowers.
  • microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
  • misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
  • most-farrow — (of a cow) not pregnant.
  • motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
  • narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
  • news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
  • nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
  • nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
  • northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
  • objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
  • offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
  • open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
  • otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
  • otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
  • otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
  • outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
  • outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
  • outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • oversweeten — to sweeten too much
  • overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
  • oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
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