12-letter words containing w, a, n, s
- flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- galanty show — pantomime shadow play
- glassblowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
- grooving saw — a circular saw used for making grooves
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
- heaven knows — You can say 'Heaven knows' to emphasize that you do not know something, or that you find something very surprising.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in sb's wake — If you leave something or someone in your wake, you leave them behind you as you go.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- japanese yew — a yew, Taxus cuspidata, of Japan, grown as an ornamental.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knowableness — the quality of being knowable
- laser weapon — weapons which make use of lasers or lasers used as weapons
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- lawn sleeves — (used with a plural verb) the sleeves of lawn forming part of the dress of an Anglican bishop.
- lawyerliness — Quality of being lawyerly.
- lean towards — If you lean towards or lean toward a particular idea, belief, or type of behaviour, you have a tendency to think or act in a particular way.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- lower saxony — a state in NW Germany. 18,294 sq. mi. (47,380 sq. km). Capital: Hanover.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
- man of straw — straw man.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- mendel's law — law of segregation.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.