11-letter words containing w, e, t, s
- motherworts — Plural form of motherwort.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- newsagent's — a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- offset well — An offset well is a wellbore which is close to a proposed well, and which provides information for planning the proposed well.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- oxbow chest — a chest of drawers having a front convex at the sides and concave in the center without vertical divisions.
- oyster stew — a stew containing oysters
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- puppet show — an entertainment, as a play or musical revue, in which the performers are puppets.
- 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
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- sash weight — a counterweight to a vertically sliding window sash.
- 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.
- saw-toothed — having pointing resembling the edge of a saw.
- 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.
- self-weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- settle down — to appoint, fix, or resolve definitely and conclusively; agree upon (as time, price, or conditions).
- settle with — to pay a debt or bill to
- seventy-two — a cardinal number, 70 plus 2.
- 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.