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12-letter words containing s, w, e

  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
  • power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
  • power shower — a shower (device for washing yourself) that incorporates a device that increases water pressure to create a more powerful spray
  • power supply — power supply unit
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • prayer shawl — a tallith.
  • presweetened — already sweetened
  • prose writer — a person who writes prose
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
  • renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • renownedness — celebrated; famous.
  • road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • sage sparrow — a small gray finch, Amphispiza belli, of dry, brushy areas of western North America.
  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • saw palmetto — a shrublike palmetto, Serenoa repens, of the palm family, native to the southern U.S., having green or blue leafstalks set with spiny teeth.
  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
  • schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
  • screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
  • screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
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