7-letter words containing n, a, w
- lawsone — (organic compound) 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, the colouring principle of henna.
- laydown — a hand held by a declarer that is or can be played with all cards exposed because no action by the opponents can prevent the declarer from taking the number of tricks necessary to make the contract.
- lowland — land that is low or level, in comparison with the adjacent country.
- luangwa — a river in E Zambia, flowing SSW to the Zambezi River. 500 miles (805 km) long: forms part of boundary with Mozambique.
- manward — Also, manwards. toward humankind: The church directed its attention manward as well as heavenward.
- manwise — in the manner of a human being: The dog stood on his hind legs and walked manwise.
- mawkins — Plural form of mawkin.
- mawning — Eye dialect of morning, representing non-rhotic.
- meawing — Present participle of meaw.
- nagware — Computer software that is free for a trial period during which the user is frequently reminded on screen to register and pay for the program in order to continue using it when the trial period is over.
- narrows — of little breadth or width; not broad or wide; not as wide as usual or expected: a narrow path.
- narwals — Plural form of narwal.
- narwhal — a small arctic whale, Monodon monoceros, the male of which has a long, spirally twisted tusk extending forward from the upper jaw.
- nas/uwt — National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers
- nayward — the negative view
- nayword — a proverb or byword
- netware — Novell NetWare
- new age — of or relating to a movement espousing a broad range of philosophies and practices traditionally viewed as occult, metaphysical, or paranormal.
- new lad — a cultural stereotype, which is basically a throwback to a supposedly more masculine or macho image of masculinity in reaction against the supposedly feminized 'New Man' of the 1990s
- new man — John Henry, Cardinal, 1801–90, English theologian and author.
- newcast — (transitive) To recast; form or mould anew.
- newgate — a prison in London, England: torn down 1902.
- newmade — Newly made.
- newsman — a person employed to gather news, as for a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television news bureau; reporter.
- newwave — A graphical user interface and object-oriented environment from Hewlett-Packard, based on Windows and available on Unix workstations.
- newyacc — A parser generator by Jack Callahan <[email protected]>. Version 1.0.
- nonwage — Not of or pertaining to a wage.
- norwalk — a city in SW California.
- norward — Archaic form of northward.
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- nowaday — Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- nowdays — Eye dialect of nowadays.
- nym war — a dispute about the right to publish material on the internet under a fictitious name
- okinawa — the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, in the N Pacific, SW of Japan: taken by U.S. forces April–June 1945 in the last major amphibious campaign of World War II. 544 sq. mi. (1409 sq. km).
- oldowan — of or designating a Lower and Middle Pleistocene industrial complex of eastern Africa, characterized by assemblages of stone tools about two million years old that are the oldest well-documented artifacts yet known.
- one-way — moving, or allowing movement in one direction only: a one-way street.
- onwards — toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- outfawn — (rare) To exceed in fawning.
- outgnaw — to exceed in gnawing
- own man — If you say that a man is his own man, you approve of the fact that he makes his decisions and his plans himself, and does not depend on other people.
- ownable — able to be owned
- palawan — an island in the W Philippines. 5697 sq. mi. (14,755 sq. km).
- pawnage — the act of pawning.
- pawning — to deposit as security, as for money borrowed, especially with a pawnbroker: He raised the money by pawning his watch.
- pinwale — (of a fabric, especially corduroy) having very thin wales.
- plowman — a man who plows.
- predawn — the period immediately preceding dawn.
- prewarn — to warn in advance
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.