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12-letter words containing t, o, w

  • slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
  • smart growth — People such as architects and environmentalists use smart growth to refer to the construction of new buildings and roads within a town or city so that they are close to people's workplaces and mass transit systems and so that open spaces are not built on.
  • snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • snow scooter — a small open powered vehicle mounted on skis for travelling on snow
  • snow thrower — snow blower.
  • snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • 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.
  • sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
  • stone curlew — thick-knee.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
  • story writer — author of prose fiction
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • sweat it out — wait tensely
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  • sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
  • swift-footed — swift in running.
  • take to wife — to marry (a woman)
  • talk down to — to communicate or exchange ideas, information, etc., by speaking: to talk about poetry.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
  • that will do — If you say that will do to a child, you are telling them to stop behaving in the way that they are.
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the new look — a fashion in women's clothes introduced in 1947, characterized by long full skirts
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
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