11-letter words containing s, w, i, a
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- ida b wells — Henry, 1805–78, U.S. businessman: pioneered in banking, stagecoach services, and express shipping.
- in the wars — (esp of a child) hurt or knocked about, esp as a result of quarrelling and fighting
- interweaves — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interweave.
- jesuit ware — Chinese porcelain of the early 18th century, decorated with Christian motifs, usually in black and gold on a white background.
- kwashiorkor — a malnutrition disease, chiefly of children, caused by severe protein and vitamin deficiency and characterized by retarded growth, changes in pigmentation, potbelly, and anemia.
- kwasniewski — Aleksander [ah-lek-sahn-der] /ˌɑ lɛkˈsɑn dɛr/ (Show IPA), born 1954, Polish journalist and politician: president of Poland 1995–.
- law society — association of lawyers
- lawn tennis — tennis, especially when played on a grass court.
- leisurewear — casual clothes that are designed for wear during leisure time.
- lewis range — a mountain range in NW Montana, a front range of the N Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Cleveland, 10,466 feet (3192 meters).
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lukewarmish — fairly or somewhat lukewarm
- lutosławski — Witold (ˈvitɔlt). 1913–94, Polish composer, whose works frequently juxtapose aleatoric and notated writing
- madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- makeweights — Plural form of makeweight.
- malt whisky — whisky, as Scotch, made entirely from malted barley.
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new realism — neorealism.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saginaw bay — an arm of Lake Huron, off the E coast of Michigan. 60 miles (97 km) long.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.