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13-letter words containing a, w, n, i, g

  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
  • speed walking — power walking.
  • sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
  • standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
  • station wagon — an automobile with one or more rows of folding or removable seats behind the driver and no luggage compartment but an area behind the seats into which suitcases, parcels, etc., can be loaded through a tailgate.
  • staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
  • stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
  • storm warning — a showing of storm signals.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
  • 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
  • town planning — city planning.
  • training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
  • unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • 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.
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
  • wall painting — mural painting executed by any of various techniques, as encaustic, tempera, fresco, or oil paint on canvas, often as an enhancement of the architecture of which the recipient wall is a part.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  • wang jing wei — 1883–1944, Chinese politician. A leading revolutionary, he struggled (1927–32) with Chiang Kai-shek for control of the Kuomintang. During World War II he was head of a Japanese puppet government in Nanjing
  • 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.
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • warning light — a light that indicates danger
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
  • warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
  • wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • water parting — a watershed or divide.
  • water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.
  • waterboarding — a harsh interrogation technique in which water is poured onto the face and head of the immobilized victim so as to induce a fear of drowning.
  • waterflooding — (in oil, gas, or petroleum production) the practice of injecting water to maintain pressure in a reservoir and to drive the oil, etc towards the production wells
  • watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
  • watering spot — watering hole
  • waterproofing — Chiefly British. a raincoat or other outer coat impervious to water.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • wedding feast — a meal served to celebrate a wedding
  • 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.
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