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13-letter words containing s, w, e, i

  • sneak preview — a preview of a motion picture, often shown in addition to an announced film, in order to observe the reaction of the audience.
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • solitary wave — a localized disturbance that propagates like a wave but resembles a particle in that it does not disperse, even if it collides with other such waves.
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • spider flower — cleome
  • sports writer — A sports writer is a journalist who writes about sport.
  • squirrel away — any of numerous arboreal, bushy-tailed rodents of the genus Sciurus, of the family Sciuridae.
  • stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • steam whistle — a type of whistle sounded by a blast of steam, as used formerly in factories, on locomotives, etc
  • step out with — to be a boyfriend or girlfriend of (someone), esp publicly
  • stepford wife — a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance
  • steve wozniak — (person)   Co-founder of Apple Computer with Steve Jobs on 01 April 1976 and the inventor of the Apple II personal computer.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • stripped down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • stripped-down — having only essential features; lacking any special appointments or accessories.
  • strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • sweat-stained — (of clothes or fabric) bearing the marks left by a person's sweat
  • swedenborgian — 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.
  • sweet william — a pink, Dianthus barbatus, having clusters of small, variously colored flowers.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • swimmer's ear — an inflammation of the outer ear occurring in persons who swim for long periods or fail to dry the ears.
  • swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
  • swindle sheet — an expense account.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • swivel-hipped — characterized by an exaggeratedly swinging or extremely free motion of the hips.
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • this day week — a week (counting backward or forward) from today (or yesterday, etc.)
  • tinker's weed — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
  • train-workers — people who work on trains
  • turkish towel — a thick cotton towel with a long nap usually composed of uncut loops.
  • twist of fate — unexpected chance occurrence
  • twitter storm — a message on the Twitter website which attracts a significant amount of attention from other Twitter users and may be picked up by mainstream media
  • two solitudes — a term for the situation of English and French Canada, considered as socially and culturally isolated from each other
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
  • unknowingness — a state of not knowing
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