13-letter words containing d, o, w, n
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- maxwell demon — a hypothetical agent or device of arbitrarily small mass that is considered to admit or block selectively the passage of individual molecules from one compartment to another according to their speed, constituting a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- mid wicket on — mid on.
- modern hebrew — the living language of modern Israel, a revived form of ancient Hebrew. Abbreviation: ModHeb.
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- 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.
- ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
- 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 caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- now and again — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.
- nylon letdown — evacuation from an aircraft by means of a parachute.
- of many words — talkative
- of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
- old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- once and away — conclusively
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- 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.
- outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
- outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
- outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
- outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
- pop-down menu — pull-down menu
- powder monkey — (formerly) a boy employed on warships to carry gunpowder from the magazine to the guns.
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- ribbon window — a long window made up of a number of individual compartments set together horizontally with little or no division.
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
- send away for — order by post