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11-letter words containing s, w, u

  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • southwardly — toward the south
  • southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
  • square away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • square wave — a graph, function, vibration, etc., that is periodic and equal to one constant on one half of the period and a different constant, which may be zero, on the other half.
  • square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • statute law — statutory law.
  • stunt woman — a woman who substitutes for an actor in scenes requiring hazardous or acrobatic feats.
  • sulphurwort — an umbelliferous perennial plant, Peucedanum officinale, of which the roots produce a smell like that of sulphur
  • sun-worship — the act of worshipping the sun as a deity
  • sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
  • supergrowth — exceptional growth; very rapid growth
  • superlawyer — an extremely successful lawyer
  • superpowers — an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations.
  • superweapon — an extremely powerful weapon
  • swamp blues — a style of slow blues originating in Louisiana
  • swamp buggy — an amphibious vehicle for use in and around swamps, typically having an automobile engine, four-wheel drive, large wheels with deep treads, and a raised chassis.
  • swan-upping — the taking up of young swans to mark them with nicks on the beak for identification.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • sweet shrub — Carolina allspice.
  • swing-music — Also called Big Band music, swing music. a style of jazz, popular especially in the 1930s and often arranged for a large dance band, marked by a smoother beat and more flowing phrasing than Dixieland and having less complex harmonies and rhythms than modern jazz.
  • swiss guard — a member of a corps of bodyguards protecting the pope, with membership restricted to natives of Switzerland.
  • switch plug — a plug, as for an electric iron, equipped with an on-off switch.
  • thumbs down — the short, thick, inner digit of the human hand, next to the forefinger.
  • thumbs-down — an act or instance of dissent, disapproval, etc.
  • tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
  • trustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • tundra swan — a swan, Cygnus columbianus, nesting in tundra regions of both the New and Old Worlds, having a black bill with a yellow spot at the base.
  • un-showered — a brief fall of rain or, sometimes, of hail or snow.
  • unawareness — not aware or conscious; unconscious: to be unaware of any change.
  • unbeknownst — unknown; unperceived; without one's knowledge (usually followed by to).
  • under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • unswallowed — not swallowed
  • unsweetened — to make sweet, as by adding sugar.
  • unwholesome — not wholesome; unhealthful; deleterious to health or physical or moral well-being: unwholesome food; unwholesome activities.
  • unwithstood — not opposed or resisted; not withstood
  • unwitnessed — lacking the signature of a witness: an unwitnessed legal document.
  • upside down — with the upper part undermost.
  • usenet news — Usenet
  • 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.
  • vowel sound — spoken language: open sound
  • wakefulness — unable to sleep; not sleeping; indisposed to sleep: Excitement made the children wakeful.
  • 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
  • war surplus — equipment, supplies, etc., originally used by or manufactured for the armed forces, but disposed of cheaply as surplus or obsolete: He made his fortune in war surplus.
  • warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
  • warrensburg — a town in central Missouri.
  • wasterfully — in a wasteful manner
  • water louse — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
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