13-letter words containing n, e, w, s, r

jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
lowerclassman — underclassman.
lowerclassmen — underclassman.
machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
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.
nervous wreck — sb anxious
network storm — broadcast storm
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 australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
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 jerseyite — of New Jersey
new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
north-western — North-western means in or from the north-west of a region or country.
northeastward — the northeast.
northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
northwestward — the northwest.
norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.
nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
oversweetness — the state of being too sweet

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