12-letter words containing w, a, r, s
- alton towers — a 19th-century Gothic Revival mansion with extensive gardens in NW central England, in Staffordshire: site of a large amusement park
- ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- 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.
- arm-twisting — persuasion
- ass-backward — the wrong way round; back to front; in the opposite order to what is considered normal
- assbackwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
- at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
- athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
- auger shower — a shower of electrons, photons, etc. resulting from the collision of primary cosmic rays with atomic nuclei in the atmosphere
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- ballanwrasse — a slow-growing fish (Labrus bergylta) found in rocky waters
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- basketweaver — a person who advocates simple, natural, and unsophisticated living
- 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
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- bear witness — to give written or oral testimony
- below stairs — People sometimes use below stairs to refer to the servants in a rich household and the things that are connected with them.
- bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- brooks's law — (programming) "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
- by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
- cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- circular saw — A circular saw is a round metal disk with a sharp edge which is used for cutting wood and other materials.
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
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