13-letter words containing e, a, r, w, o
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- know by heart — have memorized
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- murder weapon — the weapon that was used in a murder
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- 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.
- 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.
- network layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
- 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.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwestward — the northwest.
- 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 power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- 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.
- 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.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay