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12-letter words containing w, e, a, s, l

  • slumber wear — nightclothes
  • small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
  • squaw valley — valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, E Calif., near Lake Tahoe: a ski resort
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • sunshine law — a law requiring a government agency to open its official meetings and records to the general public.
  • swallow dive — swan dive.
  • swamp azalea — an azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern U.S., having fragrant, white to pink or sometimes red flowers.
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • sweat glands — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • 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.
  • swell-headed — a vain or arrogant person.
  • swelled head — an inordinately grand opinion of oneself; conceit.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
  • the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
  • to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
  • unanswerable — not capable of being answered; not having a known or discoverable answer: an unanswerable question.
  • unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
  • verner's law — the statement by K. Verner of a regularity behind some apparent exceptions in the Germanic languages to Grimm's law, namely, that Proto-Germanic voiceless fricatives became voiced when between voiced sounds if the immediately preceding vowel was not accented in Proto-Indo-European.
  • wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
  • walk on eggs — the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.
  • walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
  • warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
  • wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
  • wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
  • washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
  • wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
  • watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
  • 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.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • water slater — an aquatic isopod of the genus Asellus, common in weedy water
  • water splash — a place where a stream runs over a road
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