12-letter words containing s, w, e
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- clos network — (networking) A type of network topology that can connect N inputs to N outputs with less that N^2 crosspoint switches.
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- collywobbles — an upset stomach
- common shrew — a small mouse-like long-snouted mammal, Sorex araneus, of the family Soricidae: order Insectivora (insectivores)
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- dessert bowl — A dessert bowl is a bowl in which a dessert is served.
- dessert wine — A dessert wine is a sweet wine, usually a white wine, that is served with dessert.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disemboweled — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
- disentwining — Present participle of disentwine.
- dotted swiss — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- eensy-weensy — tiny; small.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- elbow grease — physical effort
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- eyewitnesses — Plural form of eyewitness.
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- ferrel's law — the law that wind is deflected to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, derived from the application of the Coriolis effect to air masses.