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12-letter words containing s, w, i

  • newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
  • night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
  • noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
  • of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
  • old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
  • oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
  • outside work — work done off the premises of a business
  • owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
  • oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
  • parallelwise — in a parallel manner
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • pleased with — satisfied or content with
  • polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
  • positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • prose writer — a person who writes prose
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • pussy willow — a small willow, Salix discolor, of eastern North America, having silky catkins.
  • pussy-willow — a small willow, Salix discolor, of eastern North America, having silky catkins.
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
  • renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
  • screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
  • scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
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