11-letter words containing s, w
- gallowsness — the quality of being bold or reckless
- gaming laws — laws relating to gambling and playing games for money
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gas welding — a method of welding in which a combination of gases, usually oxyacetylene, is used to provide a hot flame
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- get wise to — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
- ghost-write — If a book or other piece of writing is ghost-written, it is written by a writer for another person, for example a politician or sportsman, who then publishes it as his or her own work.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- glassblower — A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
- glassworker — a person who makes or does glasswork.
- go to waste — to consume, spend, or employ uselessly or without adequate return; use to no avail or profit; squander: to waste money; to waste words.
- goods wagon — a heavy railroad freight car.
- goosewinged — (of a square sail) having the lee clew furled while the weather clew is held taut.
- grass widow — a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband.
- grease wool — shorn fleece before it has been cleaned
- greasewoods — Plural form of greasewood.
- greasy wool — untreated wool, still retaining the lanolin, which is used for waterproof clothing
- green words — green bytes
- greenswards — Plural form of greensward.
- grimm's law — the statement of the regular pattern of consonant correspondences presumed to represent changes from Proto-Indo-European to Germanic, according to which voiced aspirated stops became voiced obstruents, voiced unaspirated stops became unvoiced stops, and unvoiced stops became unvoiced fricatives: first formulated in 1820–22 by Jakob Grimm, though the facts had been noted earlier by Rasmus Rask.
- groatsworth — the amount that is, or may be, bought or sold for a groat
- groundswell — a broad, deep swell or rolling of the sea, due to a distant storm or gale.
- groundworks — Plural form of groundwork.
- growthiness — the quality of being growthy
- guardswoman — A female guardsman.
- guardswomen — Plural form of guardswoman.
- guildswoman — a woman who is a member of a guild
- gullywasher — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.
- handbarrows — Plural form of handbarrow.
- hash browns — fried potato cake
- hawes water — a lake in NW England, in the Lake District: provides part of Manchester's water supply; extended by damming from 4 km (2.5 miles) to 6 km (4 miles)
- hawkishness — resembling a hawk, as in appearance or behavior.
- hawser bend — a knot uniting the ends of two lines.
- hawser-laid — cablelaid (def 1).
- headwaiters — Plural form of headwaiter.
- heavenwards — Also, heavenwards. toward heaven.
- henry's law — the principle that at a constant temperature the concentration of a gas dissolved in a fluid with which it does not combine chemically is almost directly proportional to the partial pressure of the gas at the surface of the fluid.
- here's how! — (as a toast) good health!
- highbrowism — Highbrow attitudes and policies generally.
- hinshelwood — Sir Cyril Norman, 1897–1967, English chemist: Nobel Prize 1956.
- hitherwards — (archaic) Toward this place.
- home waters — territorial waters
- homeworkers — Plural form of homeworker.
- honey-sweet — sweet as honey.
- hooke's law — the law stating that the stress on a solid substance is directly proportional to the strain produced, provided the stress is less than the elastic limit of the substance.
- hornswoggle — to swindle, cheat, hoodwink, or hoax.
- horror show — a situation filled with or causing horror.
- horse-drawn — A horse-drawn carriage, cart, or other vehicle is one that is pulled by one or more horses.
- house owner — A house owner is a person who owns a house.