11-letter words containing s, w, i, t, h
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- straightway — straightaway.
- strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
- swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
- sweet birch — a North American tree, Betula lenta, having smooth, blackish bark and twigs that are a source of methyl salicylate.
- swing shift — a work shift in industry from midafternoon until midnight.
- swipe right — to move a finger from left to right across a touchscreen in order to approve an image
- switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
- 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.
- switched on — turned-on (def 1).
- switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- the swedish — the people of Sweden collectively
- the willies — nervousness, jitters, or fright (esp in the phrase give (or get) the willies)
- the windies — the international cricket team of the West Indies
- 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
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- time switch — Electronics
- tin whistle — A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. You play the tin whistle by blowing into it. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music.
- trip switch — an electric switch arranged to interrupt a circuit suddenly and disconnect power from a running machine so that the machine is stopped
- twaite shad — a European shad
- unwithstood — not opposed or resisted; not withstood
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- washability — capable of being washed without shrinking, fading, or the like.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- wealthiness — having great wealth; rich; affluent: a wealthy person; a wealthy nation.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- weatherwise — (domain) With respect to the weather.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- weight loss — slimming
- weightiness — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
- welwitschia — A gymnospermous plant of desert regions in southwestern Africa that has a dwarf, massive trunk, two long strap-shaped leaves, and male and female flowers in the scales of scarlet cones. It is remarkable for its ability to extract moisture from fog.
- westphalian — a former province in NW Germany, now a part of North Rhine-Westphalia: treaty ending the Thirty Years' War 1648.
- wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- whateverism — (politics) Adherence to the Two Whatevers:
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whist drive — a social gathering where whist is played; the winners of each hand move to different tables to play the losers of the previous hand
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- whistle pig — a woodchuck.