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11-letter words containing w, a, s, h

  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
  • shanty town — ghetto, slum
  • 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
  • showmanship — the skill or ability of a showman.
  • 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).
  • small white — a small white butterfly, Artogeia rapae, with scanty black markings, the larvae of which feed on brassica leaves
  • smooth away — to remove (difficulties, obstacles, etc.)
  • snow chains — device that gives tyres extra grip
  • south wales — an area of Wales bordered by England and the Bristol Channel to the east and south, and Mid Wales and West Wales to the north and west. Includes the capital city, Cardiff, as well as Swansea and Newport. Welsh name: De Cymru
  • 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.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • 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.
  • swash plate — an inclined circular plate on a rotating shaft for transferring force and motion to or from parts reciprocating in a direction parallel to the axis of shaft rotation.
  • swashbuckle — to work, behave, or perform as a swashbuckler.
  • 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 cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switch yard — a railroad yard in which rolling stock is distributed or made up into trains.
  • switchblade — a pocketknife, the blade of which is held by a spring and can be released suddenly, as by pressing a button.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • switchgrass — a North American prairie grass
  • swivel head — A swivel head is a bearing between the traveling block and the kelly.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • the gallows — execution by hanging
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the wharves — the working area of a dock
  • the yahwist — the conjectured author or authors of the earliest of four main sources or strands of tradition of which the Pentateuch is composed and in which God is called Yahweh throughout
  • 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
  • twaite shad — a European shad
  • unseaworthy — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • waggishness — Waggish behaviour.
  • wainwrights — Plural form of wainwright.
  • waistcloths — Plural form of waistcloth.
  • walfish bay — Walvis Bay.
  • walthamstow — a former borough, now part of Waltham Forest, in SE England.
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