12-letter words containing sw
- answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
- antisway bar — stabilizer bar.
- backswimmers — Plural form of backswimmer.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- bank swallow — a swallow, Riparia riparia, of the Northern Hemisphere, that nests in tunnels dug in sand or clay banks.
- barn swallow — the US and Canadian name for the common swallow, Hirundo rustica
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- blue swimmer — an edible bluish Australian swimming crab, Portunus pelagicus
- boiled sweet — Boiled sweets are hard sweets that are made from boiled sugar.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- collingswood — a city in SW New Jersey.
- common swift — Apus apus, a bird with long narrow wings which spends most of the time on the wing
- coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- cross swords — to argue or fight
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- 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.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- 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.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
- hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
- 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.
- medium-sweet — (esp of wines) fairly sweet
- meteor swarm — any large number of meteoroids moving in parallel paths.
- mine-sweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- minesweepers — Plural form of minesweeper.
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- newsweeklies — Plural form of newsweekly.
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
- presweetened — already sweetened
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
- 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
- sportswriter — a journalist who reports on sports and sporting events.
- summer-sweet — sweet pepperbush.
- swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
- swainishness — loutishness
- swallow dive — swan dive.
- swamp azalea — an azalea, Rhododendron viscosum, of the eastern U.S., having fragrant, white to pink or sometimes red flowers.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- swamp mallow — a rose mallow, Hibiscus moscheutos.
- 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.
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