12-letter words containing w, s, t
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- malt whiskey — Malt whiskey or malt is whiskey that is made from malt.
- man of straw — straw man.
- marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
- mass wasting — downhill movement of soil and rock fragments induced by gravity.
- matter waves — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- metalworkers — Plural form of metalworker.
- meteor swarm — any large number of meteoroids moving in parallel paths.
- midwest city — a city in central Oklahoma, near Oklahoma City.
- midwesterner — Middle West.
- motown-sound — Detroit, Michigan: a nickname.
- mwambutsa iv — 1912–77, king of Burundi 1962–66.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- new atlantis — a political allegory by Francis Bacon, published in 1627.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- newport news — a seaport in SE Virginia: shipbuilding and ship-repair center.
- news analyst — commentator (def 1).
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
- northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
- northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- oliver twist — a novel (1838) by Dickens.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- owen stanley — a mountain range on New Guinea in SE Papua New Guinea. Highest peak, Mt. Victoria, 13,240 feet (4036 meters).
- owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
- oyster white — a slightly grayish white; off-white.
- pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
- pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
- pester power — the ability possessed by a child to nag a parent relentlessly until the parent succumbs and agrees to the child's request
- picture show — motion picture.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- pleased with — satisfied or content with
- polish wheat — a wheat, Triticum polonicum, grown chiefly in S Europe, N Africa, and Turkestan.
- positive law — customary law or law enacted by governmental authority (as distinguished from natural law).
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- 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.)
- postworkshop — occurring after a workshop
- 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.
- power assist — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
- power-stream — to stream and watch (multiple videos, episodes of a TV show, etc.) in one sitting or over a short period of time.
- praiseworthy — deserving of praise; laudable: a praiseworthy motive.
- presweetened — already sweetened