12-letter words containing w, h, i, c, s
- acid washing — a process in which a denim garment is treated with a bleach solution containing chlorine-soaked stones so that the color becomes faded and the material is softer.
- autorickshaw — (in India) a light three-wheeled vehicle driven by a motorcycle engine
- basic weight — basis weight.
- berwickshire — (until 1975) a county of SE Scotland: part of the Borders region from 1975 to 1996, now part of Scottish Borders council area
- braunschweig — Brunswick
- bushwhacking — to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc.
- chickasawhay — a river in SE Mississippi, flowing S to the Pascagoula River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chinese wall — a notional barrier between the parts of a business, esp between the market makers and brokers of a stock-exchange business, across which no information should pass to the detriment of clients
- clownishness — The state of being clownish.
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- corn whiskey — a whisky made from maize
- cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- french twist — French roll.
- kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
- kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- picture show — motion picture.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- sea crawfish — spiny lobster
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- showy orchis — a wild orchid, Orchis spectabilis, of eastern North America, having a spike of showy flowers, each with purple, pink, or white sepals and petals united into a galea and a white lip.
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
- swiss cheese — a firm, pale-yellow cheese made originally in Switzerland, typically made from cow's milk and having many holes.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- twitch grass — couch grass.
- warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
- wattenscheid — an industrial town in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia east of Essen
- welwitschias — Plural form of welwitschia.
- west chicago — a town in NE Illinois.
- wheel static — noise in an automobile radio induced by wheel rotation.
- whimsicality — Also, whimsicalness. whimsical quality or character.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
- whiskey jack — gray jay.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
- windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
- witch's mark — devil's mark.
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