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