13-letter words containing n, e, w, a, m
- 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.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
- new ball game — a new or changed situation: Once we're out of debt it'll be a whole new ball game.
- new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
- new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
- new testament — the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
- new to a game — If you are new to a particular game, you have not done a particular activity or been in a particular situation before.
- news magazine — periodical about current affairs
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- painted woman — a prostitute; slut.
- permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- 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.
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- seminole wars — a series of conflicts in 1818–19 between American forces under Andrew Jackson and the Seminole Indians in Spanish-controlled eastern Florida.
- siamese twins — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- simware, inc. — (company) The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- te waipounamu — a Māori name for New Zealand's South Island
- unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- weapon system — a weapon and the components necessary to its proper function, such as targeting and guidance devices
- wearisomeness — causing weariness; fatiguing: a difficult and wearisome march.
- wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
- weeping myall — any of several Australian acacias, especially Acacia pendula (weeping myall) having gray foliage and drooping branches.
- weighted mean — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
- welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
- well-mannered — polite; courteous.
- west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
- west midlands — a metropolitan county in central England. 347 sq. mi. (899 sq. km).
- western samoa — an independent country comprising the W part of Samoa: formerly a trust territory of New Zealand. 1133 sq. mi. (2935 sq. km). Capital: Apia.
- whimsicalness — Whimsicality.
- white van man — a male van driver, often of a white van, whose driving is selfish and aggressive
- wicket maiden — an over in which no runs are scored with the bat and at least one wicket is taken by the bowler
- wild geranium — geranium (def 2).
- wild mandrake — the May apple, Podophyllum peltatum.
- wilhelmshaven — a seaport in NW Germany, NW of Bremen, on the North Sea.
- winding frame — a machine on which yarn or thread is wound.
- wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine