11-letter words containing w, a, s, h, r
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- schoolwards — in the direction of school
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- schwarzwald — a wooded mountain region in SW Germany. Highest peak, Feldberg, 4905 feet (1495 meters).
- scratch awl — an awllike device for scribing wood.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- shade-grown — grown in the shade, especially in artificial shade, as under a cloth.
- shadow roll — sheepskin that is placed just below the eyes of a pacing horse in order to prevent it from seeing moving shadows cast by its body.
- shadowgraph — a picture produced by throwing a shadow, as of the hands, on a lighted screen, wall, or the like.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- ship of war — warship.
- shirt-waist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- show around — guide round a new place
- shower head — nozzle of a shower attachment
- shrink wrap — transparent film for wrapping food
- shrink-wrap — to wrap and seal (a book, a food product, etc.) in a flexible film of plastic that, when exposed to a heating process, shrinks to the contour of the merchandise.
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- southwardly — toward the south
- spare wheel — A spare wheel is a wheel with a tyre on it that you keep in your car in case you get a flat tyre and need to replace one of your wheels.
- sparrowhawk — a small, short-winged European hawk, Accipiter nisus, that preys on smaller birds.
- sperm whale — a large, square-snouted whale, Physeter catodon, valued for its oil and spermaceti: now reduced in number and rare in some areas.
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- 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.
- storm watch — watch (def 20).
- straightway — straightaway.
- strawweight — a boxer of the lightest competitive class, especially a boxer weighing up to 104 pounds (47.2 kg).
- swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- sweat shirt — a heavy, loose, usually long-sleeved pullover made of cotton jersey, worn as by athletes to absorb sweat during or after exercise, sometimes with loose trousers (sweat pants) of the same material, forming an ensemble (sweat suit)
- swiss chard — chard.
- switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
- switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
- switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
- the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
- the wharves — the working area of a dock
- 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
- unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
- wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
- warehousing — an act or instance of a person or company that warehouses something.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- washerwoman — a woman who washes clothes, linens, etc., for hire; laundress.
- washerwomen — Plural form of washerwoman.
- watchmakers — Plural form of watchmaker.
- watchspring — the main spring inside a watch
- watchstraps — Plural form of watchstrap.
- watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
- water brash — heartburn (def 1).
- water shrew — either of two small amphibious shrews, Neomys fodiens (European water shrew) or N. anomalus (Mediterranean water shrew), having a dark pelage with paler underparts