12-letter words containing w, a, n, s
- acid washing — a process in which a denim garment is treated with a bleach solution containing chlorine-soaked stones so that the color becomes faded and the material is softer.
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- anklewarmers — Plural form of anklewarmer.
- answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
- antispinward — (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
- antisway bar — stabilizer bar.
- anuszkiewicz — Richard Joseph, born 1930, U.S. op-art painter.
- arm-twisting — persuasion
- avowableness — the quality or condition of being avowable
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- ballanwrasse — a slow-growing fish (Labrus bergylta) found in rocky waters
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
- battlewagons — Plural form of battlewagon.
- bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- conway's law — (project, humour) The rule (presumably formulated by Melvin Conway) that the organisation of software and the organisation of the software team will be congruent; originally stated as "If you have four groups working on a compiler, you'll get a 4-pass compiler".
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- englishwoman — adult female from England
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
- fast-flowing — water: rapid
- fast-growing — growing very quickly
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
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