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12-letter words containing w, e, r, o, a

  • sale of work — a sale of goods and handicrafts made by the members of a club, church congregation, etc, to raise money
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • 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.
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • sewage works — a place where chemicals are used to clean sewage so that it can then be allowed to go into rivers, etc or used to make manure
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • shop steward — commerce: union rep
  • shower stall — an individual compartment or self-contained unit, having a single shower and accommodating one person.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • slow-release — sustained-release.
  • 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.
  • software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
  • sponged ware — spongeware.
  • 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.
  • storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
  • straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • toilet water — a scented liquid used as a light perfume; cologne.
  • torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
  • town manager — an official appointed to direct the administration of a town government.
  • tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
  • tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
  • trojan women — a tragedy (415 b.c.) by Euripides.
  • unforewarned — not forewarned
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • wager of law — a form of trial in which the accused offered to make oath of his innocence, supported by the oaths of 11 of his neighbours declaring their belief in his statements
  • wagon master — wagon boss.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • walker hound — an American foxhound having a black, tan, and white, or, sometimes, a tan and white coat.
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
  • war memorial — monument to dead soldiers
  • warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
  • warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
  • warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
  • warm-blooded — Also, endothermic. designating or pertaining to animals, as mammals and birds, whose blood ranges in temperatures from about 98° to 112°F (37° to 44°C) and remains relatively constant, irrespective of the temperature of the surrounding medium; homoiothermal.
  • warmongering — the practices and principles of a warmonger.
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
  • water bomber — an aircraft with special tanks for holding water that can be dropped on forest fires
  • water bottle — container that holds drinking water
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