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12-letter words containing w, r, s, t

  • streetworker — a social worker who works with youths of a neighborhood.
  • subway train — a train that runs on an underground railway
  • summer-sweet — sweet pepperbush.
  • summerweight — (of clothes) suitable in weight for wear in the summer; relatively light
  • super twelve — an annual international southern hemisphere Rugby Union tournament between teams from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • 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
  • swash letter — an ornamental italic capital letter having a flourish extending beyond the body of the type.
  • sweater girl — a young woman with a shapely bosom, especially one who wears tight sweaters.
  • sweaterdress — a knitted, woollen dress
  • sweet cherry — a cherry tree, Prunus avium, characterized by reddish-brown bark and a pyramidal manner of growth.
  • sweet clover — melilot.
  • sweet dreams — sleep well
  • sweet marten — the European pine marten, Martes martes : trapped for its fur and now greatly reduced in number.
  • sweet orange — a globose, reddish-yellow, bitter or sweet, edible citrus fruit.
  • sweet pepper — a variety of pepper, Capsicum annuum grossum, having a mild-flavored, bell-shaped or somewhat oblong fruit.
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
  • the brownies — (in the US) the junior division of the Girl Scouts, usually for girls six to eight years old
  • the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
  • the whirlies — illness induced by excessive use of alcohol or drugs
  • this-worldly — distinguished by or relating to material or earthly concerns; not spiritual or concerned with life in a future or imaginary world
  • thitherwards — in that direction
  • to draw lots — If people draw lots to decide who will do something, they each take a piece of paper from a container. One or more pieces of paper is marked, and the people who take marked pieces are chosen.
  • 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.
  • twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
  • twenty-sixer — a liquor bottle of around 26 ounces (0.750 litre) capacity
  • twisted pair — A twisted pair is a pair of wires that are twisted together to reduce interference.
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • twitterverse — the social networking site Twitter and its users
  • unnewsworthy — (of a story or incident) not important or significant enough to be considered news
  • unworthiness — not worthy; lacking worth or excellence.
  • variety show — vaudeville performance
  • wagon master — wagon boss.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • walkthroughs — Plural form of walkthrough.
  • warning shot — gunshot fired into the air
  • warrant sale — a sale of someone's personal belongings or household effects that have been seized to meet unpaid debts
  • wash leather — a soft leather, usually made of sheepskin
  • wash-leather — a soft leather, usually sheepskin, dressed in imitation of chamois.
  • wastage rate — the drop-out rate from a company, college, or other organization, especially before they have completed their education or training
  • waste ground — an empty piece of land
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
  • water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
  • 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.
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