11-letter words containing s, w
- motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- mouse elbow — (jargon, medical) A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP. Similarly, "mouse shoulder". GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he taught himself to be ambimoustrous.
- musical saw — a handsaw played as a musical instrument with a violin bow or a hammer while the saw is bent with varying tension to change the pitch.
- musk flower — a sticky-hairy plant, Mimulus moschata, of the figwort family, native to northern and western North America, having pale-yellow flowers and a musky odor.
- musk mallow — Also called musk rose. a European mallow, Malva moschata, introduced into North America, having musk-scented white or lavender flowers.
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- new english — Modern English.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
- new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- new realism — neorealism.
- new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- news reader — (messaging) A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
- news vendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
- news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
- newsagent's — a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
- newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
- newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
- newsvendors — Plural form of newsvendor.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
- old swedish — the language of Sweden as spoken and written from about 1225 to 1500.
- old windsor — a royal residence in the time of Edward the Confessor, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the town of Windsor in Berkshire
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openwindows — (operating system) A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswimming — Present participle of outswim.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.