13-letter words containing n, o, r, e, w
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
- downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
- downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
- dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
- dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
- dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- edward lorenz — (person) A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
- european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
- flower garden — plot for flowers
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
- foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
- four-wheeling — traveling in a vehicle using four-wheel drive.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- giant redwood — big tree.
- golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
- groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
- gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
- heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- honore morrow — Honoré Willsie [on-uh-rey wil-see,, on-uh-rey] /ˈɒn əˌreɪ ˈwɪl si,, ˌɒn əˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1940, U.S. novelist.
- hornswogglers — Plural form of hornswoggler.
- horsewhipping — Present participle of horsewhip.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- internet worm — (networking, security) The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
- jeffersontown — a town in N Kentucky.
- job interview — a formal meeting at which someone is asked questions in order to find out if they are suitable for a post of employment
- kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
- know by heart — have memorized
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly