11-letter words containing s, w, e
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- cold shower — shower: in cold water
- comedy show — a funny programme on TV or radio
- coneflowers — Plural form of coneflower.
- cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- copywriters — Plural form of copywriter.
- corkscrewed — Simple past tense and past participle of corkscrew.
- cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
- cough sweet — a lozenge to relieve a cough
- course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- cross wires — cross hair (def 1).
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.