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

  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • pascal's law — the law that an external pressure applied to a fluid in a closed vessel is uniformly transmitted throughout the fluid.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • 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.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • raoult's law — the principle that the fraction by which the vapor pressure of a solvent is lowered by the addition of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolytic solute is equal to the mole fraction of the solute in the solution.
  • 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.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • 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
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • 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.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-renewal — the act of renewing.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • 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
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
  • slow-release — sustained-release.
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • 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.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
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