13-letter words containing s, w, t
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
- dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
- dimwittedness — The state or condition of being dimwitted.
- dispense with — to deal out; distribute: to dispense wisdom.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
- draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
- dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
- fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- for the worse — into a less desirable or inferior state or condition
- four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
- fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
- free software — (software) Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- garrison town — a town containing a military base
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- get somewhere — to make progress
- get the works — to be the victim of extreme measures
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
- gunshot wound — bullet injury caused by a firearm
- hawkeye state — Iowa (used as a nickname).
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- hot-swappable — (of devices, disks, etc) capable of being inserted or removed from a computer system that is running, without causing damage or affecting performance
- how's tricks? — how are you?
- hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
- inbetweener's — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- inbetweenness — a person or thing that is between two extremes, two contrasting conditions, etc.: yeses, noes, and in-betweens; a tournament for professional, amateur, and in-between.
- industry-wide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- interviewee's — a person who is interviewed.
- isle of wight — Isle of, an island off the S coast of England, forming an administrative division of Hampshire. 147 sq. mi. (381 sq. km). County seat: Newport.
- isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- keep sb sweet — If you keep someone sweet, you do something to please them in order to prevent them from becoming annoyed or dissatisfied.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- know by sight — the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
- know-nothings — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
- lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years