11-letter words containing s, w
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- blow a kiss — to kiss one's hand, then blow across it as if to carry the kiss through the air to another person
- body swerve — (esp in football games) the act or an instance of swerving past an opponent
- bow compass — a compass for drawing, in which the legs are joined by a flexible metal bow-shaped spring rather than a hinge, the angle being adjusted by a screw
- bowie state — Arkansas (used as a nickname).
- boyle's law — the principle that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume at constant temperature
- bracket saw — a handsaw for cutting curved forms.
- bragg's law — the principle that when a beam of X-rays of wavelength λ enters a crystal, the maximum intensity of the reflected ray occurs when sin θ = nλ/2d, where θ is the complement of the angle of incidence, n is a whole number, and d is the distance between layers of atoms
- breadthways — from side to side
- breadthwise — in the direction of the breadth
- breast wall — a retaining wall built to hold back a bank of earth
- breastworks — a defensive work, usually breast high.
- bridle-wise — trained to obey the pressure of the reins on the neck instead of the pull on the bit
- brown goods — Brown goods are electrical appliances such as televisions and audio equipment. Compare white goods.
- brown sauce — a sauce made from cooked fat and flour
- brown shirt — (in Nazi Germany) a storm trooper
- brown snake — any of various common venomous snakes of the genus Pseudonaja
- brown study — a mood of deep absorption or thoughtfulness; reverie
- brown sugar — Brown sugar is sugar that has not been refined, or is only partly refined. It is golden brown in color.
- brown swiss — a hardy breed of large, brown dairy cattle, first raised in Switzerland
- brown toast — toasted wholemeal bread
- brown-state — (of linen and lace fabrics) undyed
- brownnosing — If you accuse someone of brownnosing, you are saying in a rather offensive way that they are agreeing with someone important in order to get their support.
- brownstoner — a person who lives in or owns a brownstone house.
- brownsville — city & port in S Tex., on the Rio Grande: pop. 140,000
- bulbous bow — a bulbous protuberance at the forefoot of a ship to reduce turbulence
- bull's wool — nonsense
- burrowstown — a burgh town
- bus network — (networking) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire or set of wires (the bus). Bus networks typically use CSMA/CD techniques to determine which node should transmit data at any given time. Some networks are implemented as a bus, e.g. Ethernet - a one-bit bus operating at 10, 100, 1000 or 10,000 megabits per second. Originally Ethernet was a physical layer bus consisting of a wire (with terminators at each end) to which each node was attached. Switched Ethernet, while no longer physically a bus still acts as one at the logical layers.
- bush lawyer — any of several prickly trailing plants of the genus Rubus
- bushelwoman — a woman who alters clothes
- bushwalking — an expedition on foot in the bush
- bushwhacker — a person who travels around or lives in thinly populated woodlands
- cactus wren — any American wren of the genus Campylorhynchus, of arid regions, especially C. brunneicapillus, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- caddis worm — the wormlike larva of the caddis fly that usually lives in fresh water in an elongated case made of twigs, grains of sand, etc. cemented together with silk that it secretes: commonly used as bait by anglers
- cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
- caseworkers — Plural form of caseworker.
- cassowaries — Plural form of cassowary.
- castle walk — a ballroom dance of the pre–World War I era, consisting of a sedate step to each beat.
- casual wear — informal articles of clothing or footwear
- casual work — temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casual-wear — clothing designed for wear on informal occasions.
- cattle show — a competitive event at which farmers show their best cattle
- cattywampus — catawampus
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- checkerwise — Alternative spelling of chequerwise.
- chequerwise — in the manner of a chequerboard
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chisel plow — a soil tillage device pulled by a tractor or animal, used to break up and stir soil a foot or more beneath the surface without turning it.
- chuckwallas — Plural form of chuckwalla.