11-letter words containing s, w
- saul bellow — Saul, 1915–2005, U.S. novelist, born in Canada: Nobel Prize in Literature 1976.
- saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
- scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
- scape wheel — escape wheel.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- schwarzwald — a wooded mountain region in SW Germany. Highest peak, Feldberg, 4905 feet (1495 meters).
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- scotchwoman — Scotswoman.
- scratch awl — an awllike device for scribing wood.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- scrawlingly — in a scrawling manner
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- screw press — a device for applying pressure by the turning of a threaded shaft.
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- sea swallow — any of several terns, especially Sterna hirundo.
- sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
- seam bowler — a fast bowler who makes the ball bounce on its seam so that it will change direction
- second wind — the return of ease in breathing after exhaustion caused by continued physical exertion, as in running.
- sei (whale) — a rorqual (Balaenoptera borealis) with a light-gray or bluish back, found in all seas
- self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- self-weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- self-willed — stubborn or obstinate willfulness, as in pursuing one's own wishes, aims, etc.
- semi-weekly — occurring, done, appearing, or published twice a week: semiweekly visits.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settle with — to pay a debt or bill to
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
- sewage pipe — a pipe used to carry waste matter such as faeces or dirty water from homes and factories
- sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadow mask — a perforated metal sheet mounted close to the phosphor-dotted screen in some colour television tubes. The holes are positioned so that each of the three electron beams strikes the correct phosphor dot producing the required colour mixture in the image
- shadow play — a show in which shadows of puppets, flat figures, or live actors are projected onto a lighted screen.
- shadow roll — sheepskin that is placed just below the eyes of a pacing horse in order to prevent it from seeing moving shadows cast by its body.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shanty town — ghetto, slum
- shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- ship of war — warship.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.