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11-letter words containing w, e, n, t, s

  • oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
  • postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
  • pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
  • reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
  • resort town — a holiday town
  • 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
  • settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
  • seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
  • shower unit — fitted shower
  • sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
  • snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
  • snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
  • sopping wet — soaked, dripping
  • springwater — water from a spring
  • st. andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • state-owned — owned by the state; not privately owned
  • stateswoman — a woman who is experienced in the art of government.
  • stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
  • stemwinding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
  • stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
  • stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
  • stonewashed — to wash (cloth) with pebbles or stones so as to give the appearance of wear.
  • stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.
  • strike down — to deal a blow or stroke to (a person or thing), as with the fist, a weapon, or a hammer; hit.
  • swarthiness — (of skin color, complexion, etc.) dark.
  • sweat gland — one of the minute, coiled, tubular glands of the skin that secrete sweat.
  • sweat pants — loose-fitting pants of soft, absorbent fabric, as cotton jersey, usually with a drawstring at the waist and close-fitting or elastic cuffs at the ankles, commonly worn during athletic activity for warmth or to induce sweating.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • swing state — a state of the U.S. in which the Democratic and Republican candidates both have a good chance of winning and that is considered key to the outcome of a presidential election: the swing states of Ohio and Indiana.
  • swing voter — to cause to move to and fro, sway, or oscillate, as something suspended from above: to swing one's arms in walking.
  • swingletree — a whiffletree.
  • swingometer — a device used in television broadcasting during a general election to indicate the swing of votes from one political party to another
  • switch cane — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
  • switched on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switched-on — turned-on (def 1).
  • switzerland — a republic in central Europe. 15,944 sq. mi. (41,294 sq. km). Capital: Bern.
  • talent show — a theatrical show in which a series of usually amateur or aspiring singers, dancers, comedians, instrumentalists, etc., perform in the hope of gaining recognition.
  • the narrows — strait between Upper & Lower New York Bay, separating Staten Island & Long Island
  • the windies — the international cricket team of the West Indies
  • thistledown — the mature, silky pappus of a thistle.
  • tin whistle — A tin whistle is a simple musical instrument in the shape of a metal pipe with holes. You play the tin whistle by blowing into it. Tin whistles make a high sound and are often used in folk music, for example Irish music.
  • tongues wag — If tongues are wagging, people are talking a lot about someone and their behaviour.
  • torrens law — any of various statutes that provide for the registration of the title to land with the government, which issues a warranted title deed (Torrens certificate) to said land
  • townspeople — residents of a town
  • trade winds — Also, trade winds. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
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