11-letter words containing w, e, t, r
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- quoteworthy — quotable.
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reinterview — to interview or question again
- rent review — a provision in the lease of a business premise whereby the amount of the rent being paid is reconsidered at stated intervals, for example every three or five years
- resort town — a holiday town
- right whale — any of several large whalebone whales of the genus Balaena, of circumpolar seas: the species B. glacialis is greatly reduced in numbers.
- riverworthy — (of a boat) able to cross or sail a river safely
- robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- roh tae woo — born 1932, president of South Korea 1988–93.
- round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge
- rupturewort — a plant, Herniaria glabra, of the pink family
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- 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
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
- 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.
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.
- somewhither — to some unspecified place; somewhere.
- southwester — a wind, gale, or storm from the southwest.
- spatterwork — a method of decorating whereby ink or another fluid is spattered over a medium
- springwater — water from a spring
- square with — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- st. andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
- stage screw — a large, tapered screw fitted with a handle, used to secure braces for scenery to the floor of a stage.
- steelworker — a person employed in the process of manufacturing steel and steel products.
- steerageway — sufficient speed to permit a vessel to be maneuvered.
- stem-winder — a stemwinding watch.
- stern-wheel — propelled by a paddle wheel at the stern.
- stewardship — the position and duties of a steward, a person who acts as the surrogate of another or others, especially by managing property, financial affairs, an estate, etc.
- still water — a part of a stream that is level or where the level of inclination is so slight that no current is visible.
- stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
- stonewaller — to engage in stonewalling.
- stoneworker — any construction, as walls or the like, of stone; stone masonry.