12-letter words containing n, e, w, i, g
- hard-wearing — resistant to extensive wear; durable: a pair of hardwearing jeans.
- heartwarming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- in the wings — in the corridors of a theatre
- in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
- intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
- intertwining — Twist or twine together.
- interviewing — Present participle of interview.
- interweaving — Present participle of interweave.
- interwinding — Present participle of interwind.
- interwishing — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.
- interworking — to work or weave together; interweave.
- interwrought — having been interworked
- jaw-breaking — Informal. a word that is hard to pronounce.
- k'ang yu-wei — 1858–1927, Chinese scholar and reformer.
- law-breaking — Law-breaking is any kind of illegal activity.
- lawbreakings — Plural form of lawbreaking.
- leading wind — a wind abeam or on the quarter, especially one strong enough to be a good sailing wind.
- life drawing — drawing objects or people from life
- line drawing — a drawing done exclusively in line, providing gradations in tone entirely through variations in width and density.
- long-awaited — A long-awaited event or thing is one that someone has been waiting for for a long time.
- long-waisted — of more than average length between the shoulders and waistline; having a low waistline.
- long-wearing — Something that is long-wearing is strong and well made so that it lasts for a long time and stays in good condition even though it is used a lot.
- longwindedly — Alternative spelling of long-windedly.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- ludwigshafen — a city in SW Germany, on the Rhine opposite Mannheim.
- metalworking — the act or technique of making metal objects.
- microbrewing — Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.
- minesweeping — (nautical) The detection and safe disposal of mines.
- minimum wage — lowest hourly earnings permitted by law
- minimum-wage — of or relating to a minimum wage: minimum-wage demands.
- misknowledge — a misunderstanding or misconception
- new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
- new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
- new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- new-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- nigger brown — a dark brown colour
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nonflowering — (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
- nonyellowing — that does not become yellow, esp with age
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
- overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.