13-letter words containing a, m, n, w
- storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
- swimming gala — a competitive event featuring swimming races
- te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- 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.”.
- wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
- walnut family — the plant family Juglandaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having alternate, pinnately compound leaves, male flowers in tassellike catkins and female flowers in clusters, and edible nuts enclosed in a thick-walled or leathery husk, and including the butternut, hickory, pecan, and walnut.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
- well-mannered — polite; courteous.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
- wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild huntsman — the leader of the Wild Hunt, often associated with Odin.
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- wolverhampton — a city in West Midlands, in W England.
- woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
- woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
- wool merchant — a dealer in wool
- works manager — a factory manager