11-letter words containing w, e, n, i, s
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- new english — Modern English.
- new realism — neorealism.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- openwindows — (operating system) A graphical user interface server for Sun workstations which handles SunView, NeWS and X Window System protocols.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- over-sewing — to sew with stitches passing successively over an edge, especially closely, so as to cover the edge or make a firm seam.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- samian ware — a red-glazed terracotta pottery produced in Gaul and the Moselle Valley a.d. 100–300 and copied from Arretine ware.
- satin weave — one of the basic weave structures in which the filling threads are interlaced with the warp at widely separated intervals, producing the effect of an unbroken surface.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- sealing wax — a resinous preparation, soft when heated, used for sealing letters, documents, etc.
- second wind — the return of ease in breathing after exhaustion caused by continued physical exertion, as in running.
- sewing silk — finely twisted silk thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showeriness — the state or quality of being showery
- sidewalking — the practice of shopkeepers standing on the sidewalk outside their shops to attract customers.
- sienkiewicz — Henryk [hen-rik] /ˈhɛn rɪk/ (Show IPA), 1846–1916, Polish novelist: Nobel prize 1905.
- sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
- simmer down — to cook or cook in a liquid at or just below the boiling point.
- single whip — an instrument for striking, as in driving animals or in punishing, typically consisting of a lash or other flexible part with a more rigid handle.
- single-wide — a mobile home used as a permanent residence.
- snailflower — a tropical vine, Vigna caracalla, of the legume family, having fragrant, yellowish or purplish flowers, a segment of which is shaped like a snail's shell.
- snow bridge — a mass of snow bridging a crevasse, sometimes affording a risky way across it
- snowmobiler — a person who drives a snowmobile
- snowshoeing — the activity of taking part in cross-country walks over snow
- snowy river — a river in SE Australia, rising in SE New South Wales: waters diverted through a system of dams and tunnels across the watershed into the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers for hydroelectric power and to provide water for irrigation. Length: 426 km (265 miles)
- sopping wet — soaked, dripping
- spin bowler — a bowler who specializes in bowling balls with a spinning motion
- springwater — water from a spring
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
- swan maiden — any of a class of folkloric maidens, in many Indo-European and Asian tales, capable of being transformed into swans, as by magic or sorcery.
- swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
- swear blind — to assert emphatically