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12-letter words containing w, i, s, a, r

  • 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.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • 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
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
  • solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • stellar wind — the radial outflow of ionized gas from a star.
  • straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
  • straightways — in a direct course
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • superhighway — a highway designed for travel at high speeds, having more than one lane for each direction of traffic, a safety strip dividing the two directions, and cloverleaves to route the traffic on and off the highway. Compare expressway.
  • swamp rabbit — any of several southern cottontails, especially Sylvilagus aquaticus, of swamps and lowlands.
  • swap trading — a contract in which the parties to it exchange liabilities on outstanding debts in trading
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
  • swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • waking hours — Your waking hours are the times when you are awake rather than asleep.
  • wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
  • warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
  • warning sign — sth that indicates danger
  • warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
  • wash drawing — a watercolor painting executed by applying a series of monochrome washes one over the other.
  • water pistol — a toy gun that shoots a stream of liquid.
  • water shield — Also called water target. an aquatic plant, Brasenia schreberi, of the water lily family, having purple flowers, floating, elliptic leaves, and a jellylike coating on the underwater stems and roots.
  • water spider — a Eurasian spider, Argyroneta aquatica, that spins a web in the form of an air-filled chamber in which it lives submerged in streams and ponds
  • water sprite — a sprite or spirit inhabiting the water, as an undine.
  • watered silk — silk with a wavy lustrous finish
  • waterishness — the state of being waterish
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