12-letter words containing w, e, i, s, h
- reality show — A reality show is a type of television program that aims to show how ordinary people behave in everyday life, or in situations, often created by the program makers, which are intended to represent everyday life.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- 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.
- swainishness — loutishness
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- sweetishness — the quality of being sweetish
- swiss cheese — a firm, pale-yellow cheese made originally in Switzerland, typically made from cow's milk and having many holes.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- 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.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the twenties — the years numbered 20–29 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
- thitherwards — in that direction
- twenty-sixth — next after the twenty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 26.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered
- unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
- variety show — vaudeville performance
- walking shoe — a sturdy comfortable shoe worn by hillwalkers, etc
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- washing line — cord for hanging laundry to dry
- 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.
- waterishness — the state of being waterish
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- weather ship — a ship equipped for meteorological observation.
- weather-wise — skillful in predicting weather.
- weatherstrip — A strip of rubber, metal, or other material used to seal the edges of a door or window against the cold.
- webi shebeli — Webi [wey-bi] /ˈweɪ bɪ/ (Show IPA), Webi Shebeli.
- weighbridges — Plural form of weighbridge.
- weightedness — The condition of being weighted.
- weightlessly — Whilst weightless; without weight.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- well-wishing — a person who wishes well to another person, a cause, etc.