12-letter words containing w, o, e, s
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- snowshoe cat — a breed of cat with soft short hair, blue eyes, an inverted V-shaped marking on the face, and white feet
- snowy mespil — a N American tree, Amelanchier Lamarckii, that produces small white flowers in spring
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- 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.
- star network — a circuit with three or more branches all of which have one common terminal.
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stone curlew — thick-knee.
- stone-washed — Stone-washed jeans are jeans which have been specially washed with small pieces of stone so that when you buy them they are fairly pale and soft.
- stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
- storage wall — a set of shelves, cabinets, or the like that covers or forms a wall.
- story writer — author of prose fiction
- straw yellow — a pale yellow; straw color.
- streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- sweat it out — wait tensely
- sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
- sweet almond — the nutlike kernel of the fruit of either of two trees, Prunus dulcis (sweet almond) or P. dulcis amara (bitter almond) which grow in warm temperate regions.
- sweet clover — melilot.
- sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
- sweet potato — a plant, Ipomoea batatas, of the morning glory family, grown for its sweet, edible, tuberous roots.
- sweet violet — a plant, Viola odorata, of the violet family, native to the Old World, having fragrant, usually purple flowers that are the source of an oil used in perfumery.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- sword-bearer — an official who carries the sword of state on ceremonial occasions, as before the sovereign, a magistrate, or the like.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- tennis elbow — irritation of the synovial membrane, or joint rotary area, of the elbow, caused by immoderate motions while playing tennis or other sports; epicondylitis.
- the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
- the lowlands — a low generally flat region of central Scotland, around the Forth and Clyde valleys, separating the Southern Uplands from the Highlands
- the shallows — a shallow place in a body of water
- the wop-wops — the backblocks; the back of beyond
- to know best — If you say that a particular person knows best, you mean that they have a lot of experience and should therefore be trusted to make decisions for other people.
- to lay waste — If something or someone lays waste an area or town or lays waste to it, they completely destroy it.
- to take vows — to enter a religious order and commit oneself to its rule of life by the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, which may be taken for a limited period as simple vows or as a perpetual and still more solemn commitment as solemn vows
- torts lawyer — a lawyer who specializes in tort cases
- tree sparrow — a Eurasian bird, Passer montanus, related to but smaller than the house sparrow.
- tree swallow — a bluish-green and white swallow, Iridoprocne bicolor, of North America, that nests in tree cavities.
- two sicilies — Two Sicilies.
- two-base hit — a base hit that enables a batter to reach second base safely.
- unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
- unshadowable — not able to be shadowed
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipped — not worshipped; not admired or revered