12-letter words containing w, e, s, i
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new business — New business is the number of new policies that are written by an insurance company in a particular period.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- news service — an agency that gathers news stories for its members or subscribers. Compare news agency (def 1), press association, wire service.
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
- parallelwise — in a parallel manner
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- picture show — motion picture.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- power series — an infinite series in which the terms are coefficients times successive powers of a given variable, or times products of powers of two or more variables.
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- prose writer — a person who writes prose
- 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.
- reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- rolling news — current affairs: continuous
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
- screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
- scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
- seismic wave — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- sergei witte — Sergei Yulievich [sur-gey yool-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey yoo-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ ˈyul yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ˈyu lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1915, Russian statesman.