11-letter words containing s, w, a, r
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- fox sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerella iliaca, having a bright rufous tail and streaked breast.
- fresh water — water that is not salty
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- home waters — territorial waters
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- howard moss — Howard, 1922–1987, U.S. poet, editor, and playwright.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- jawbreakers — Plural form of jawbreaker.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- jew-s--harp — (sometimes lowercase) a small, simple musical instrument consisting of a lyre-shaped metal frame containing a metal tongue, which is plucked while the frame is held in the teeth, the vibrations causing twanging tones.
- kew gardens — the Royal Botanic Gardens in the Greater London borough of Richmond-upon-Thames, on the River Thames; established in 1759 and given to the nation in 1841
- knackwursts — Plural form of knackwurst.
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- lawbreakers — Plural form of lawbreaker.
- least shrew — a small, brownish shrew, Cryptotis parva, of grassy regions of the eastern U.S.
- least-worst — bad but better than any available alternative