12-letter words containing w, a, s, t, c
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- awe-stricken — filled with awe.
- back to taws — back to the beginning
- basic weight — basis weight.
- biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- 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.
- isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
- stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- tapioca snow — snow pellets.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- wainscotings — Plural form of wainscoting.
- wainscotting — paneling or woodwork with which rooms, hallways, etc., are wainscoted.
- waistcoateer — a prostitute
- waistcoating — a fabric for making waistcoats.
- walkingstick — a stick used for walking
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
- water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
- water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
- watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
- watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
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