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12-letter words containing w, i, t

  • ready-witted — having a quick wit or intelligence.
  • 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.
  • redwood city — a city in W California.
  • reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
  • renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
  • right-winger — If you think someone has views which are more right-wing than most other members of their party, you can say they are a right-winger.
  • ring network — (networking, topology)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
  • rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
  • run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
  • 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.
  • screenwriter — a person who writes screenplays, especially as an occupation or profession.
  • scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • sea milkwort — a maritime plant, Glaux maritima, having small, pinkish-white flowers.
  • semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
  • sergei witte — Sergei Yulievich [sur-gey yool-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey yoo-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ ˈyul yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ ˈyu lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1849–1915, Russian statesman.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shirtwaister — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
  • shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
  • shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
  • short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • shut-in well — confined to one's home, a hospital, etc., as from illness.
  • siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • sinisterwise — in a leftwards direction
  • smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
  • snow bunting — a bunting, Plectrophenax nivalis, of the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere having white plumage.
  • snowmobilist — a person who drives a snowmobile, a snowmobiler
  • 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).
  • speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spotted wilt — a viral disease of plants, characterized by wilting and by brown, sunken spots and streaks on the stems and leaves.
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • stanisław ii — surnamed Poniatowski. 1732–98, the last king of Poland (1764–95), during whose reign Poland was repeatedly invaded and partitioned (1772, 1791, 1795) by its neighbours: abdicated
  • 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.
  • stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stitch wheel — a notched wheel used by a harness maker to mark out the spacing for stitching
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • storm window — a supplementary window sash for protecting a window against drafts, driving rain, etc.
  • story writer — author of prose fiction
  • straightaway — straight onward, without turn or curve, as a racecourse.
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