13-letter words containing i, t, w, o, n
- town planning — city planning.
- township line — Surveying. one of two parallel lines running east and west that define the north and south borders of a township. Compare range line, township (def 2).
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- two of a kind — two similar people or things
- und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- unwithholding — not withholding; giving freely
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- washingtonian — living in or coming from Washington, D.C., or the state of Washington.
- 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.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wave equation — Mathematics, Physics. any differential equation that describes the propagation of waves or other disturbances in a medium.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
- weaponization — Standard spelling of from=American spelling.
- weather joint — a mortar joint having a downward and outward slope.
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- wellingtonias — Plural form of wellingtonia.
- west norriton — a town in SE Pennsylvania.
- whipping post — a post to which persons are tied to undergo whipping as a legal penalty.
- white stilton — a rich white cheese made from whole milk, very strong in flavour
- wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
- wine-bottling — the process of transferring wine from a large container to individual bottles
- wing shooting — the act or practice of shooting at birds in flight.
- winston-salem — a city in N North Carolina.
- winter savory — See under savory2 .
- winter sports — Winter sports are sports that take place on ice or snow, for example skating and skiing.
- winterisation — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of winterization.
- winterization — The process in which solid fats are removed from liquid edible oils by cooling, which allows such oils to be stored in a refrigerator.
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- with bells on — a hollow instrument of cast metal, typically cup-shaped with a flaring mouth, suspended from the vertex and rung by the strokes of a clapper, hammer, or the like.
- with knobs on — in an extreme or more emphatic way
- within bounds — not beyond limits
- within reason — a basis or cause, as for some belief, action, fact, event, etc.: the reason for declaring war.
- wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
- wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- word painting — an effective verbal description.
- wordsworthian — William, 1770–1850, English poet: poet laureate 1843–50.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.