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16-letter words containing s, w, a, r

  • proposal writing — Extension of Fortran for proposal writing.
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • queen anne's war — the war (1702–13) in which England and its American colonies opposed France and its Indian allies. It constituted the American phase of the War of the Spanish Succession.
  • radial (arm) saw — a circular saw suspended from a pivoted horizontal arm along which it can be moved
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • raise an eyebrow — If something causes you to raise an eyebrow or to raise your eyebrows, it causes you to feel surprised or disapproving.
  • raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
  • rattlesnake weed — a hawkweed, Hieracium venosum, of eastern North America, whose leaves and root are thought to possess medicinal properties.
  • savannah sparrow — a North American sparrow, Passerculus sandwichensis, having brown and white plumage with a yellow stripe over each eye.
  • second world war — World War II.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • seven weeks' war — the war (1866) in which Prussia, Italy, and some minor German states opposed Austria, Saxony, Hanover, and the states of southern Germany.
  • seven years' war — the war (1756–63) in which England and Prussia defeated France, Austria, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.
  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • shaft horsepower — the horsepower delivered to the driving shaft of an engine, as measured by a torsion meter. Abbreviation: shp, SHP.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • sheet-web weaver — any of numerous spiders of the family Linyphiidae, characterized by a closely woven, sheetlike web.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • slow metabolizer — A slow metabolizer is someone whose body is slow to break down, absorb, or use a particular substance.
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • sooty shearwater — any of several long-winged seabirds, often used as food, especially Puffinus tenuirostris (short-tailed shearwater) of Australia and Puffinus griseus (sooty shearwater) which breeds in the Southern Hemisphere and winters in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • starry grasswort — a weedy plant, Cerastium arvense, of the pink family, native to the North Temperate Zone, having narrow leaves and white flowers.
  • straight whiskey — pure, unblended whiskey of 80 to 110 proof.
  • strawberry blite — a plant, Chenopodium capitatum, having dense, rounded clusters of minute reddish flowers.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • strawberry guava — a shrub or small tree, Psidium littorale, of the myrtle family, native to Brazil, having smooth, grayish-brown bark, leathery leaves, white flowers, and edible, white-fleshed, purplish-red fruit.
  • strawberry shrub — Carolina allspice
  • superheavyweight — an amateur boxer weighing more than 91 kg
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • swine erysipelas — erysipelas (def 2).
  • swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • systems software — Computers. a collection of system programs for use with a particular computer system.
  • the great powers — the states or nations of the world with the most economic, political and military strength
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • theatre workshop — a theatre company that is noted for the unconventional theatrical performances it puts on, especially with reference to a company based in the East End of London from 1953 to 1973 that was founded in 1945 by Joan Littlewood
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • to sow your oats — (of a young person) to behave in a rather uncontrolled way, esp by having a lot of sexual relationships
  • torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
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