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11-letter words containing w, a, d, s, e

  • meadowsweet — any plant belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, especially S. latifolia, having white or pink flowers.
  • mishallowed — falsely hallowed or revered
  • news reader — (messaging)   A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
  • newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
  • outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
  • passed pawn — a pawn with no opposing pawn either on an adjacent file or on its own file.
  • radio waves — an electromagnetic wave having a wavelength between 1 millimeter and 30,000 meters, or a frequency between 10 kilohertz and 300,000 megahertz.
  • red seaweed — any marine red alga, especially one of the genus Polysiphonia, having a reddish, much branched thallus.
  • sacred writ — Scripture.
  • saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
  • scaled-down — reduced in level of activity, extent, numbers, etc
  • self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
  • shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
  • sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
  • slack-jawed — having the mouth open, especially as an indication of astonishment, bewilderment, etc.
  • snow-capped — A snow-capped mountain is covered with snow at the top.
  • soap powder — soap produced and packaged in powdered form.
  • soft sawder — flattery; compliments
  • spider wasp — any of certain wasps, especially of the family Pompilidae, that provision their nests with paralyzed spiders.
  • st. andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • state-owned — owned by the state; not privately owned
  • stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • streetwards — towards or facing the street
  • sunday week — a week (counting backward or forward) from Sunday (or Monday, Tuesday, etc.)
  • swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
  • swan-necked — having a neck that is long and elegant like that of a swan
  • swear blind — to assert emphatically
  • sweat blood — to perspire, especially freely or profusely.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat lodge — (especially among North American Indians) a special building used for cleansing and purifying one's body by sweating, in which heated water is poured over heated stones to produce steam.
  • sweetlambda — Sugared lambda-calculus(?).
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • swordbearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • throw aside — If you throw aside a way of life, a principle, or an idea, you abandon it or reject it.
  • throw shade — to make a public show of contempt
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • tradeswoman — a woman engaged in trade.
  • twaite shad — a European shad
  • under wraps — to enclose in something wound or folded about (often followed by up): She wrapped her head in a scarf.
  • unswallowed — not swallowed
  • wage spread — the difference in wages paid to workers in an industry or profession
  • wainscotted — Having a wainscot.
  • waistcoated — Wearing a waistcoat.
  • wait-listed — placed on a waiting list for a flight leaving an airport
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