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11-letter words containing s, w, i, a

  • swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • swiss chard — chard.
  • swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
  • swiss lapis — cracked quartz, stained blue in imitation of lapis lazuli.
  • swiss steak — a thick slice of steak dredged in flour and pounded, browned, and braised with tomatoes, onions, and other vegetables.
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • szymanowski — Karol [kah-rawl] /ˈkɑ rɔl/ (Show IPA), 1882?–1937, Polish composer.
  • the yahwist — the conjectured author or authors of the earliest of four main sources or strands of tradition of which the Pentateuch is composed and in which God is called Yahweh throughout
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • time waster — If you say that someone or something is a time waster, you mean that they cause you to spend a lot of time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit.
  • townscaping — the act of designing a town
  • toxic waste — waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
  • twaite shad — a European shad
  • visualworks — (language)   A modern commercial implementation of the Smalltalk programming language. VisualWorks descends directly from the original Smalltalk-80 by Xerox PARC and was originally developed (for some time under the name Objectworks\Smalltalk) by ParcPlace Systems. VisualWorks relies on dynamic translation as its virtual machine technology.
  • waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
  • wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
  • wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
  • waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
  • wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
  • waitressing — a woman who waits on tables, as in a restaurant.
  • wake island — an island in the N Pacific, belonging to the U.S.: air base. 3 sq. mi. (8 sq. km).
  • waldmeister — An herb used for flavouring wines and liqueurs.
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • walking bus — a group of schoolchildren walking together along an agreed route to and from school, accompanied by adults, with children joining and leaving the group at prearranged points
  • wallenstein — Also, Waldstein. Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von [ahl-brekht ven-tsuh l oi-zey-bee-oo s fuh n] /ˈɑl brɛxt ˈvɛn tsəl ɔɪˈzeɪ biˌʊs fən/ (Show IPA), Duke of Friedland [freed-land,, -luh nd;; German freet-lahnt] /ˈfridˌlænd,, -lənd;; German ˈfritˌlɑnt/ (Show IPA), 1583–1634, Austrian general in the Thirty Years' War, born in Bohemia.
  • walt disney — Walt(er E.) 1901–66, U.S. creator and producer of animated cartoons, motion pictures, etc.
  • wang an shi — 1021–86, Chinese statesman and writer: remembered for his economic reforms, known as the New Policies (1069–76)
  • wanted list — a list of people being searched for by the police in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • ward sister — a senior nurse in charge of a ward
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
  • warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
  • warlikeness — the state of being warlike
  • warm spring — a thermal spring having a temperature of up to 98°F (37°C).
  • washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
  • wasim akram — Chaudhry. born 1966, Pakistani cricketer: a fast bowler, he played in 104 test matches (1984–2002), 25 as captain, and took 414 wickets
  • waspishness — The quality of being waspish.
  • wasserstein — Wendy, 1950–2006, U.S. playwright.
  • watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
  • water slide — flume
  • water snail — Archimedes' screw.
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