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

  • 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.
  • allhallowmas — All Saints' Day.
  • alloy wheels — wheels made from an steel alloy, usually of aluminium or magnesium, for improved properties such as reduced weight, better heat conductance and a shiny appearance
  • amdahl's law — (parallel)   (Named after Gene Amdahl) If F is the fraction of a calculation that is sequential, and (1-F) is the fraction that can be parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using P processors is 1/(F+(1-F)/P).
  • at the worst — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • at wholesale — in large quantities
  • 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
  • basic weight — basis weight.
  • basis weight — the weight in pounds of a ream of paper of a basic size, usually 25 × 38 inches (63 × 96 cm) for book stock, 17 × 22 inches (43 × 55 cm) for writing stock, and 20 × 26 inches (50 × 66 cm) for cover stock.
  • 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
  • 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
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • by wholesale — at wholesale
  • by-a-whiskerwhiskers, a beard.
  • cashew apple — the soft, swollen, pear-shaped stalk of the cashew tree, to which a cashew nut is attached: used in preserves and wine.
  • charles drewCharles 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
  • chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • 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
  • chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
  • cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
  • deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
  • egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
  • englishwoman — adult female from England
  • escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
  • fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
  • flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
  • flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
  • foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
  • foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
  • forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
  • galanty show — pantomime shadow play
  • galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
  • graham's law — the principle that the rates of diffusion and effusion of a gas are inversely proportional to the square root of its density, proposed by Thomas Graham (1805-69) in 1831
  • grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
  • greenwashing — Present participle of greenwash.
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • hansa yellow — a pigment derived from coal tar, characterized chiefly by its brilliant yellow color.
  • harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • harris tweed — a hand-woven tweed made only by residents in the Outer Hebrides from locally dyed and spun wool

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