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12-letter words containing n, e, w, i, g

  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • prizewinning — having won, or worthy of, a prize
  • reading week — university: week-long break from classes
  • rice growing — the cultivation of rice as a food crop
  • right-winger — If you think someone has views which are more right-wing than most other members of their party, you can say they are a right-winger.
  • ring network — (networking, topology)   A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
  • rolling news — current affairs: continuous
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-winding — kept wound or wound periodically by a mechanism, as an electric motor or a system of weighted levers, so that winding by hand is not necessary.
  • sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
  • sewn binding — a style of binding where the backs of the gathered sections are sewn together before being inserted into a cover
  • signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • smyth sewing — a method of sewing together folded, gathered, and collated signatures with a single thread sewn through the folds of individual signatures.
  • speedwriting — a system of shorthand that is based on the sound of words and utilizes letters of the alphabet rather than symbols.
  • spot welding — fusing metal
  • spring water — water from natural underground source
  • stem-winding — wound by turning a knob at the stem.
  • stonewalling — the act of stalling, evading, or filibustering, especially to avoid revealing politically embarrassing information.
  • stud welding — the semiautomatic welding of a stud or similar piece of metal to a flat part, usually by means of an electric arc
  • swimmingness — tearfulness
  • swine plague — hemorrhagic septicemia of hogs, caused by the bacterium Pasteurella suiseptica, characterized by an accompanying infection of pneumonia.
  • swing bridge — a bridge that can open by pivoting on a central pier to let vessels pass.
  • swiss-german — of or relating to a person from German-speaking Switzerland
  • tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • time-wasting — causing someone to spend time doing something that is unnecessary or does not produce any benefit
  • town meeting — a general meeting of the inhabitants of a town.
  • twenty-eight — a cardinal number, 20 plus 8.
  • twin-engined — (of an aircraft) having two engines
  • twitteringly — in a twittering manner
  • underdrawing — the act of sketching a subject before painting it on the same surface
  • underwetting — Underwetting is a condition which affects the packing surface in a distillation vessel, and makes the liquid film on the surface break up.
  • underwriting — the act of undertaking to purchase at an agreed price any unsold portion of a public issue of shares etc
  • unswervingly — to turn aside abruptly in movement or direction; deviate suddenly from the straight or direct course.
  • unwaveringly — to sway to and fro; flutter: Foliage wavers in the breeze.
  • unwearyingly — in an unwearying manner
  • viewing lens — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
  • viewing time — the amount of time spent watching television, esp with regard to a particular region
  • vine-growing — of, relating to, or characterized by the cultivation of grapevines
  • vintage wine — a wine, usually of superior quality, made from selected grapes of a certain type, region, and year, then dated and usually stored for aging.
  • waiting game — a stratagem in which action on a matter is reserved for or postponed to a later time, allowing one to wait for a more advantageous time to act or to see what develops in the meantime.
  • wakeboarding — (sports) A water sport where a rider on a small board is towed by a motor boat, and attached by a cable.
  • waking dream — an experience you have while you are awake that feels similar to dreaming
  • walking beam — an overhead oscillating lever, pivoted at the middle, for transmitting force from a vertical connecting rod below one end to a vertical connecting rod, pump rod, etc., below the other end.
  • walking fern — a fern, Camptosorus rhizophyllus, having simple, triangular fronds tapering into a prolongation that bends at the top and often takes root at the apex.
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