11-letter words containing w, r, s, t
- narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- otherwhiles — at other times, sometimes
- otherworlds — Plural form of otherworld.
- otter shrew — a chiefly aquatic insectivore, Potamogale velox, of western Africa, that resembles an otter, having sleek, brown fur and a flattened tail.
- outswearing — Present participle of outswear.
- outswingers — Plural form of outswinger.
- outwardness — (uncountable) The quality of being outward.
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overwrestle — to overpower by wrestling
- oyster stew — a stew containing oysters
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- plasterwork — finish or ornamental work done in plaster.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- potter wasp — any of several mason wasps, especially of the genus Eumenes, that construct a juglike nest of mud.
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- ratings war — a situation in which each of two or more channels makes a particular effort to attract more viewers or listeners than its rival
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- resort town — a holiday town
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- saltirewise — in the direction or manner of a saltire.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scratch awl — an awllike device for scribing wood.
- scratch wig — a short wig, especially one that covers only part of the head.
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shameworthy — deserving shame; denoting something a person ought to be ashamed of
- shirt-waist — a tailored blouse or shirt worn by women.
- shortweight — to give less than the weight charged for: The firm is accused of shortweighting grain.
- shower unit — fitted shower
- showstopper — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
- sightworthy — worth seeing
- sign writer — someone whose job is to produce signs for businesses
- silver thaw — glaze (def 17).
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slipperwort — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Calceolaria, of the figwort family, having opposite or whorled leaves and slipper-shaped flowers.
- snow report — a regular weather report that concentrates on details of amounts of snow and conditions at ski resorts
- snowy egret — a white egret, Egretta thula, of the warmer parts of the Western Hemisphere: formerly hunted in great numbers for its plumes, the species is now protected and has recovered.
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- somersworth — a town in SE New Hampshire.