13-letter words containing n, e, w, i, g
- overborrowing — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overwintering — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
- pile dwelling — a house raised on long columns of timber over the surface of the soil or a body of water
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
- reverse swing — a type of swing in which a ball that has been scuffed on one side will move in the opposite direction to that of a new ball
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- screenwriting — writing film scripts
- self-renewing — of or relating to the act of renewing oneself or itself
- sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
- sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
- sewing needle — Northern U.S. a dragonfly.
- shivering owl — screech owl.
- single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- speed walking — power walking.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- strong-willed — having a powerful will; resolute.
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- swimming hole — a place, as in a stream or creek, where there is water deep enough to use for swimming.
- switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
- the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
- to begin with — You use to begin with when you are talking about the first stage of a situation, event, or process.
- twelfth night — the evening before Twelfth Day, formerly observed with various festivities.
- twenty-eighth — next after the twenty-seventh; being the ordinal number for 28.
- twilight zone — the lowest level of the ocean that light can reach.
- underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
- underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
- unknowingness — a state of not knowing
- unwillingness — not willing; reluctant; loath; averse: an unwilling partner in the crime.
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- wang jing wei — 1883–1944, Chinese politician. A leading revolutionary, he struggled (1927–32) with Chiang Kai-shek for control of the Kuomintang. During World War II he was head of a Japanese puppet government in Nanjing
- wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
- wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district