12-letter words containing w, e, s, m
- 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.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- slumber wear — nightclothes
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
- st. matthews — a town in N Kentucky.
- stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
- summer-sweet — sweet pepperbush.
- summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
- swamp azalea — an azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern U.S., having fragrant, white to pink or sometimes red flowers.
- swedish mile — a unit of length used in Sweden, equal to 10 kilometres
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- sweet dreams — sleep well
- sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swimmingness — tearfulness
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
- vowel system — the vowel sounds of a language, especially when considered as forming an interrelated and interacting group.
- wagon master — wagon boss.
- warehouseman — a person who stores goods for others for pay.
- warehousemen — Irregular plural form of warehouseman.
- water system — a river and all its branches.
- watermanship — the skill, duties, business, etc., of a waterman.
- weisenheimer — a wiseacre or smart aleck.
- west germany — a former republic in central Europe: created in 1949 by the coalescing of the British, French, and U.S. zones of occupied Germany established in 1945. 96,025 sq. mi. (248,706 sq. km). Capital: Bonn.
- west memphis — a city in E Arkansas, on the Mississippi.
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- westmoreland — William Childs [chahyldz] /tʃaɪldz/ (Show IPA), 1914–2005, U.S. army officer: commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam and Thailand 1964–68.
- what is more — moreover, in addition
- whatshername — A female person or entity, whose name one does not remember but that is known to the person to which one is speaking.
- whatshisname — Used to refer to a person whose name one cannot recall, does not know, or does not wish to specify.
- white salmon — the yellowtail, Seriola lalandei.
- whitmanesque — of or like Walt Whitman, his style, or his outlook; often, specif., democratic, expansive, exuberant, etc.
- whoremongers — Plural form of whoremonger.
- widow's mite — a small contribution given cheerfully by one who can ill afford it. Mark 12:41–44.
- wisdom teeth — the third molar on each side of the upper and lower jaws: the last tooth to erupt.
- wisenheimers — Plural form of wisenheimer.
- with menaces — If someone commits the crime of demanding money with menaces, they threaten to cause harm unless they are given the money.
- woman-chaser — a philanderer; womanizer.
- womanishness — The state or condition of being womanish.
- womb-leasing — bearing a child on behalf of a couple unable to have a child; surrogacy
- women's room — ladies' room.
- women's wear — apparel and accessories for women.
- wordsmithery — the craft or skill of a wordsmith
- workmistress — a woman who oversees or controls work
- wormseed oil — chenopodium oil.