13-letter words containing i, n, w
- brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
- bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
- break it down — stop it
- breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
- bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
- broken-winded — suffering from heaves
- brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- brown hickory — a North American hickory tree, Carya glabra
- brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
- brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
- brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
- buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
- buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
- buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
- burrowing owl — a ground owl (Athene cunicularia) of the prairie regions of North and South America having long legs and a small head: it makes its nest in abandoned burrows
- businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chinese white — white zinc oxide, formerly used in paints
- christ within — (in Quakerism) the light of Christ in the soul of every person, considered as a guiding force.
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
- counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
- crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- dimwittedness — The state or condition of being dimwitted.
- dirty weekend — A dirty weekend is a weekend during which two people go away together, mainly in order to have sex.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- disemboweling — Present participle of disembowel.