13-letter words containing a, s, w

mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
mendel's laws — law of segregation.
might as well — have no reason not to
milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
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.
new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
new stone age — the Neolithic period.
new testament — the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
news magazine — periodical about current affairs
newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
nominal wages — minimum pay
northeastward — the northeast.
northwestward — the northwest.
norwalk virus — a norovirus.
norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
of many words — talkative
open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
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.
out one's way — in, to, or near one's neighborhood
outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
outlaw strike — wildcat strike.

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