11-letter words containing t, w, o, s, i
- songwriting — composing melodies and lyrics
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- sow thistle — any composite plant belonging to the genus Sonchus, especially S. oleraceus, a weed having thistlelike leaves, yellow flowers, and a milky juice.
- stanislawow — Polish name of Ivano-Frankovsk.
- storywriter — a person who writes stories, tales, fables, etc.
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- swallowtail — the tail of a swallow or a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow.
- swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
- swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
- switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switched on — turned-on (def 1).
- switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- sword-point — the point of a sword
- thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
- throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
- townscaping — the act of designing a town
- toxic waste — waste material that can be harmful or deadly to living creatures and the environment
- trelliswork — latticework.
- tribeswoman — a female member of a tribe.
- unwithstood — not opposed or resisted; not withstood
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- wainscoting — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
- waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
- waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
- watsonville — a city in W California.
- way station — a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.
- web hosting — the business of providing various services, hardware, and software for websites, as storage and maintenance of site files on a server.
- weight loss — slimming
- wellingtons — Plural form of wellington.
- west covina — a city in SW California, E of Los Angeles.
- westpolitik — a policy of a Communist country of adopting trade and diplomatic relations with non-Communist nations.
- wh question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- wh-question — a question containing a WH-word, often in initial position, and calling for an item of information to be supplied, as Where do you live?
- whirlabouts — Plural form of whirlabout.
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- whistleblow — Alternative form of whistle-blow.
- whistlestop — (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
- white goods — household appliances
- white horse — a white-topped wave; whitecap.
- white house — Also called Executive Mansion. the official residence of the president of the United States, in Washington, D.C.: a large, two-story, freestone building painted white.
- white lotus — either of two Egyptian water lilies of the genus Nymphaea, as N. caerulea (blue lotus) having light blue flowers, or N. lotus (white lotus) having white flowers.
- white noise — Also called white sound. a steady, unvarying, unobtrusive sound, as an electronically produced drone or the sound of rain, used to mask or obliterate unwanted sounds.
- white sound — white noise.
- white stock — a stock of veal bones, vegetables, herbs, and seasonings: used as the basis for sauces and soups.
- white stork — a large Eurasian stork, Ciconia ciconia, having white plumage with black in the wings and a red bill.
- white toast — toasted white bread