12-letter words containing s, t, o, w
- saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- 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.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- show the way — guide
- show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
- shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
- showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
- snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- snow scooter — a small open powered vehicle mounted on skis for travelling on snow
- snow thrower — snow blower.
- snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
- spot welding — fusing metal
- spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- sweat it out — wait tensely