12-letter words containing s, w, e
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new business — New business is the number of new policies that are written by an insurance company in a particular period.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- newport news — a seaport in SE Virginia: shipbuilding and ship-repair center.
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
- northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- nurserywomen — Plural form of nurserywoman.
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- of one's own — If you say that someone has a particular thing of their own, you mean that that thing belongs or relates to them, rather than to other people.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- on one's own — of, relating to, or belonging to oneself or itself (usually used after a possessive to emphasize the idea of ownership, interest, or relation conveyed by the possessive): He spent only his own money.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- owl's clover — any of several western American plants belonging to the genus Orthocarpus, of the figwort family, having dense spikes of flowers in a variety of colors with conspicuous bracts.
- owl's-clover — any of a genus (Orthocarpus) of plants of the figwort family of W North and South America; esp., a California species (O. purpurascens) with red or purple upper leaves
- oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
- parallelwise — in a parallel manner
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- pester power — the ability possessed by a child to nag a parent relentlessly until the parent succumbs and agrees to the child's request
- picture show — motion picture.