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14-letter words containing n, o, r, w, i

  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • growing season — The growing season in a particular country or area is the period in each year when the weather and temperature is right for plants and crops to grow.
  • gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • home ownership — the situation of owning one's house or flat, or of having a mortgage on it
  • in one's power — able or allowed (to)
  • in other words — that is to say
  • indian warrior — a lousewort, Pedicularis densiflora, of the western U.S., having densely clustered red flowers.
  • inside forward — one of two attacking players whose usual position is between the center forward and one of the wings.
  • inward-looking — person
  • isolation ward — a ward where people with a contagious disease are kept separate from people who are not infected
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • kenilworth ivy — a European climbing vine, Cymbalaria muralis, of the figwort family, having irregularly lobed leaves and small, lilac-blue flowers.
  • low-resolution — of or relating to CRTs, printers, or other visual output devices that produce images that are not sharply defined (opposed to high-resolution).
  • lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
  • lower sideband — the frequency band below the carrier frequency, within which fall the spectral components produced by modulation of a carrier wave
  • lower silurian — Ordovician
  • macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
  • mackinaw trout — lake trout.
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • measuring worm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • mirror writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
  • mirror-writing — backward writing that resembles a mirror image of ordinary script.
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • mulching mower — a lawn mower that shreds blades of grass into very small pieces that are left on the lawn to decay and return moisture and nutrients to the soil
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • new providence — an island in the N Bahamas. 58 sq. mi. (150 sq. km).
  • newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
  • newton's rings — a series of bright and dark rings that appear when a convex lens comes into contact with a glass plate, and which are caused by light interference
  • nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
  • norbert wiener — Norbert, 1894–1964, U.S. mathematician: pioneer in cybernetics.
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • off-line world — (jargon)   A die-hard nethead term for non-computer-related experience. See also big room.
  • one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
  • one-liner wars — (games, programming)   A game popular among hackers who code in the language APL (see write-only language and line noise). The objective is to see who can code the most interesting and/or useful routine in one line of operators chosen from APL's exceedingly hairy primitive set. A similar amusement was practiced among TECO hackers and is now popular among Perl aficionados. (2 = 0 +.= T o.| T) / T <- iN where "o" is the APL null character, the assignment arrow is a single character, and "i" represents the APL iota.
  • one-way mirror — a sheet of glass that can be seen through from one side and is a mirror on the other, used especially for observation of criminal suspects by law-enforcement officials or witnesses.
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • overwhelmingly — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • owner-occupied — (of a home, apartment, etc.) used as a residence by the owner.
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