13-letter words containing h, a, w, i, n
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nightwatchman — Someone who guards a premises at night.
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
- 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.
- 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.
- outwash plain — Geology. a broad, sloping landform built of coalesced deposits of outwash.
- playwrighting — the writing of plays
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- sadie hawkins — Also called Sadie, Sadies. a party, dance, or other social event, especially one held annually among high school or college students, to which each girl escorts the boy of her choice, or invites him to escort her.
- saint matthew — a tax collector of Capernaum called by Christ to be one of the 12 apostles (Matthew 9:9–13; 10:3). Feast day: Sept 21 or Nov 16
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- 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
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- shadow boxing — to make the motions of attack and defense, as in boxing, as a training or conditioning procedure.
- shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
- snap the whip — crack the whip (def 2).
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- stand up with — to act as a wedding attendant to
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- swimming bath — swimming pool.
- thankworthily — in a thankworthy way or manner
- the whip hand — If you have the whip hand, you have power over someone else in a particular situation.
- twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
- unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wall lighting — a system of lighting that is fixed onto a wall
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- watering hole — a bar, nightclub, or other social gathering place where alcoholic drinks are sold.
- weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
- weatherliness — (nautical) The quality of being weatherly.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- whiskerandoed — having extravagant whiskers
- white arsenic — arsenous acid
- white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
- white pelican — an aquatic bird of the tropical and warm water family Pelecanidae, P. onocrotalus: order Pelecaniformes. They have a long straight flattened bill, with a distensible pouch for engulfing fish
- white russian — Byelorussian (def 2).
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive