13-letter words containing a, r, o, w, i
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- kilowatt-hour — a unit of energy, equivalent to the energy transferred or expended in one hour by one kilowatt of power; approximately 1.34 horsepower-hours. Abbreviation: kWh, K.W.H., kwhr.
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lunar rainbow — moonbow.
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
- narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
- neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
- norwalk virus — a norovirus.
- norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
- obi-wan error — (programming) /oh'bee-won" er"*r/ (RPI, from "off-by-one" and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars") A kind of off-by-one error.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- on a par with — If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important.
- optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
- ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
- 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.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- 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.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
- power failure — electricity outage
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power station — a generating station.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- railroad worm — the larva of a fruit fly, Rhagoletis pomonella, that burrows through apples, forming tunnels that sometimes appear on the skin as faint depressions or darkened trails: a serious pest of apples in colder regions of North America.
- rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
- rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- short-waisted — of less than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a high waistline.
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- solitary wasp — any of numerous wasps, as the sand wasps or mud wasps, that do not live in a community.