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

  • anuszkiewiczRichard Joseph, born 1930, U.S. op-art painter.
  • 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
  • bhubaneshwar — a state in E India. 60,136 sq. mi. (155,752 sq. km). Capital: Bhubaneshwar.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • blue-sky law — a state law regulating the trading of securities: intended to protect investors from fraud
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • circular saw — A circular saw is a round metal disk with a sharp edge which is used for cutting wood and other materials.
  • crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
  • dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
  • 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.
  • galusha grow — Galusha Aaron [guh-loo-shuh] /gəˈlu ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1822–1907, U.S. political leader: Speaker of the House 1861–63.
  • gully-washer — a usually short, heavy rainstorm.
  • gullywashers — Plural form of gullywasher.
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • hubble's law — the law that the velocity of recession of distant galaxies from our own is proportional to their distance from us.
  • just as well — fortunate
  • ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
  • lukewarmness — The property of being lukewarm; ambivalence, weakness.
  • meadow mouse — any of numerous short-tailed rodents of the genus Microtus and allied genera, chiefly of fields and meadows in the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
  • murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
  • mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
  • new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
  • nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
  • pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • queen's ware — a hard, cream-colored earthenware, perfected c1765 by Wedgwood.
  • raoult's law — the principle that the fraction by which the vapor pressure of a solvent is lowered by the addition of a nonvolatile, nonelectrolytic solute is equal to the mole fraction of the solute in the solution.
  • runaway star — a star with an unusually high proper motion, believed to result from its ejection from a nearby binary system when its companion star underwent a supernova explosion.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • satsuma ware — a Japanese pottery from Kyushu, first produced in the early 17th century and after 1800 having a crackle glaze and overglaze polychrome enameling and gilding.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.

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