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12-letter words containing t, w, o, s, r

  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
  • praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
  • prose writer — a person who writes prose
  • randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
  • raoult's law — the principle that the fraction by which the vapor pressure of a solvent is lowered by the addition of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolytic solute is equal to the mole fraction of the solute in the solution.
  • reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
  • reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
  • roots blower — a machine for compressing or evacuating air or gas by the rotation of a meshing pair of lobed wheels in a closely fitting case.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • show stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-stopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • show-through — the visibility through paper of what is printed on the other side.
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
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