12-letter words containing s, w, e, t, o
- 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.
- 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.
- sweat it out — wait tensely
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
- sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
- the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
- tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
- tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
- two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waste ground — an empty piece of land
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
- water sports — a sport played or practiced on or in water, as swimming, water polo, or surfing.
- water sprout — a nonflowering shoot arising from a branch or axil of a tree or shrub.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
- weavers-knot — sheet bend.
- well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- west babylon — a city on S Long Island, in SE New York.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- west lothian — a historic county in S Scotland.
- west pointer — a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point