12-letter words containing w, h, s
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- marsh mallow — an Old World mallow, Althaea officinalis, having pink flowers, found in marshy places.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- marshmallows — Plural form of marshmallow.
- marshmallowy — Similar to a marshmallow.
- murphy's law — the facetious proposition that if something can go wrong, it will.
- nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- new hebrides — former name of Vanuatu.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- 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
- northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- one-man show — a show with only one performer
- owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
- oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- passage hawk — a young hawk during its first migration.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- picture show — motion picture.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- power shovel — any self-propelled shovel for excavating earth, ore, or coal with a dipper that is powered by a diesel engine or electric motor. Compare shovel (def 2).
- power shower — a shower (device for washing yourself) that incorporates a device that increases water pressure to create a more powerful spray
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- prayer shawl — a tallith.
- push forward — keep advancing
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- 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.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- saskatchewan — a province in W Canada. 251,700 sq. mi. (651,900 sq. km). Capital: Regina.
- saw-whet owl — a very small North American owl, Aegolius acadicus, having streaked, brown plumage and lacking ear tufts.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- schoolfellow — a schoolmate.
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- 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.