12-letter words containing s, w, e
- ferris wheel — an amusement ride consisting of a large upright wheel rotating on a fixed stand and having seats around its rim suspended freely so that they remain right side up as they revolve.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- floorwalkers — Plural form of floorwalker.
- followership — the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- fort stewart — a military reservation in SE Georgia, SW of Savannah.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- fox software — (company) Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- french twist — French roll.
- gallows tree — a gallows.
- ghost writer — a person who writes one or numerous speeches, books, articles, etc., for another person who is named as or presumed to be the author.
- ghostwriters — Plural form of ghostwriter.
- ghostwritten — Written by a ghostwriter.
- gillyflowers — Plural form of gillyflower.
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- gross weight — total weight without deduction for tare, tret, or waste.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- guest worker — a foreign worker permitted to work in a country, especially in Western Europe, on a temporary basis.
- gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool
- hawk's beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- hawk's-beard — any of various plants of the genus Crepis, of the daisy family, resembling the dandelion but having a branched stem with several flowers.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- heavyweights — Plural form of heavyweight.
- hero-worship — to feel or express hero worship for.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
- house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
- hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- intertwisted — Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist.
- interviewees — Plural form of interviewee.
- interviewers — Plural form of interviewer.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.