12-letter words containing swi
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- dotted swiss — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- free-swimmer — an animal, as a fish, that swims about freely.
- hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
- limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
- scram switch — (jargon) (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- swim bladder — air bladder (def 2).
- swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
- swimmingness — tearfulness
- swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
- swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
- swiss cheese — a firm, pale-yellow cheese made originally in Switzerland, typically made from cow's milk and having many holes.
- swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
- swiss muslin — a crisp, sheer muslin that is constructed in plain weave, bleached white or dyed, and often ornamented with raised dots or figures (dotted swiss) used chiefly in the manufacture of curtains and women's summer clothes.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
- switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
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