12-letter words containing w, s, d
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- presweetened — already sweetened
- push forward — keep advancing
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- renownedness — celebrated; famous.
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- rosewood oil — a fragrant oil extracted from the wood of a South American tree, Aniba rosaeodora, and used in the manufacture of perfumes.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- say the word — If someone says the word, they give their approval as a sign that something should start to happen.
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-powered — (of a machine, vehicle, etc.) having a specified fuel or prime mover: a gasoline-powered engine; an engine-powered pump.
- self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
- shadow bands — slow-moving waves of light and dark observed to move across light-coloured surfaces on the earth just before and after totality in a solar eclipse. They are thought to originate from the effects of irregular atmospheric refraction
- shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- shadowgraphy — the production of a shadowgraph
- sharp-witted — having or showing mental acuity; intellectually discerning; acute.
- shittim wood — the wood, probably acacia, of which the ark of the covenant and various parts of the tabernacle were made. Ex. 25, 26.
- shop steward — commerce: union rep
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- side-wheeler — having a paddle wheel on each side, as a steamboat.
- skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
- slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
- snow pudding — a pudding, prepared by folding egg whites into a lemon gelatin mixture.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- 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.
- 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.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
- spider's web — a mesh of fine tough scleroprotein threads built by a spider from a liquid secreted from its spinnerets and used to trap insects
- sponged ware — spongeware.
- 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.
- square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
- squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- stand a show — to have a chance, esp. a remote one