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12-letter words containing s, w, u

  • pussy-willow — a small willow, Salix discolor, of eastern North America, having silky catkins.
  • queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
  • raoult's law — the principle that the fraction by which the vapor pressure of a solvent is lowered by the addition of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolytic solute is equal to the mole fraction of the solute in the solution.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
  • slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
  • snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
  • snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • stone curlew — thick-knee.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • subsoil plow — a plow for stirring the subsoil, usually without disturbing the surface.
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • summer-sweet — sweet pepperbush.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • super twelve — an annual international southern hemisphere Rugby Union tournament between teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • sweat equity — unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.
  • sweat it out — wait tensely
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
  • swiss muslin — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
  • unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
  • underdrawers — an undergarment for the lower part of the body, typically covering at least part of the legs. Compare drawer (def 2).
  • unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
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