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13-letter words containing a, l, w, e, n

  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • real soon now — (jargon, humour)   (RSN) A phrase used ironically when you believe an event will take a long or unknown time to occur. The term originated in SF's fanzine community, popularised by Jerry Pournelle's column in BYTE. The phrase can be used, for example, when a manager asks how long it will take you to debug some software and you have no idea. "I'll have it working Real Soon Now."
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
  • shetland wool — the fine wool undercoat pulled by hand from Shetland sheep.
  • show and tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • show-and-tell — an activity for young children, especially in school, in which each participant produces an object of unusual interest and tells something about it.
  • sister-in-law — the sister of one's husband or wife.
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • snowball tree — any of several caprifoliaceous shrubs of the genus Viburnum, esp V. opulus var. roseum, a sterile cultivated variety with spherical clusters of white or pinkish flowers
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • the-swan-lake — a ballet (1876) by Tchaikovsky.
  • townsend plan — a pension plan, proposed in the U.S. in 1934 but never passed by Congress, that would have awarded $200 monthly to persons over 60 who were no longer gainfully employed, provided that such allowance was spent in the U.S. within 30 days.
  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
  • urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
  • van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
  • venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
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