11-letter words containing s, w, i
- lower apsis — See under apsis (def 1).
- lower sixth — the first year of the sixth form
- ludwigsburg — a city in Baden-Württemberg state, SW Germany.
- 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.
- microswitch — a highly sensitive switch used in automatic-control devices.
- middle west — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- middlebrows — Plural form of middlebrow.
- millwrights — Plural form of millwright.
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- misbestowal — a wrong or improper bestowal
- mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- 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 cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- new english — Modern English.
- new realism — neorealism.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
- old windsor — a royal residence in the time of Edward the Confessor, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the town of Windsor in Berkshire
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openwindows — (operating system) A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- pillow sham — an ornamental cover laid over a bed pillow.
- pillow slip — A pillow slip is the same as a pillowcase.
- pistol-whip — to beat or hit (someone) repeatedly with a pistol, especially in the head and shoulder area.
- 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.