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12-letter words containing w, a, t, e

  • saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • 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.
  • sepak takraw — a game originating in South Asia in which two teams kick a ball back and forth over a net
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shawl tongue — kiltie (def 3).
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • show the way — guide
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skeeter hawk — mosquito hawk.
  • skeleton law — a framework or basic outline of law or rule
  • snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
  • star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • streetwalker — a prostitute who solicits on the streets.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • sweat equity — unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat it out — wait tensely
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • sweaterdress — a knitted, woollen dress
  • sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
  • sweet dreams — sleep well
  • sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • take a whizz — to urinate
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