12-letter words containing n, o, w, h

hookswinging — a ritualistic torture, practiced among the Mandan Indians, in which a voluntary victim was suspended from hooks attached to the flesh of the back.
horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
hornswoggler — Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
hostess gown — a robe or housecoat worn by women for informal entertaining at home.
hot swapping — (hardware) The connection and disconnection of peripherals or other components without interrupting system operation. This facility may have design implications for both hardware and software.
housewarming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
howlin' wolf — (Chester Arthur Burnett) 1910–76, U.S. blues singer.
in hot water — If you are in hot water, you are in trouble.
in the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
in the wrong — not in accordance with what is morally right or good: a wrong deed.
intergrowths — Plural form of intergrowth.
interwrought — having been interworked
know-nothing — an ignorant or totally uninformed person; ignoramus.
machine word — word (def 10).
machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
marshalltown — a city in central Iowa.
monkeywrench — Alternative form of monkey wrench.
nakhon sawan — a city in W central Thailand, on the Chao Phraya River.
naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
network, the — 1. (jargon, networking) (Or "the net") The union of all the major noncommercial, academic and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the old ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet "networks", plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe) that gateway to them. A site was generally considered "on the network" if it could be reached by electronic mail through some combination of Internet-style (@-sign) and UUCP (bang-path) addresses. Since the explosion of the Internet in the mid 1990s, the term is now synonymous with the Internet. See network address. 2. (body) A fictional conspiracy of libertarian hacker-subversives and anti-authoritarian monkeywrenchers described in Robert Anton Wilson's novel "Schrödinger's Cat", to which many hackers have subsequently decided they belong (this is an example of ha ha only serious).
new brighton — a town in E Minnesota.
new plymouth — a seaport on W North Island, in New Zealand.
new rochelle — a city in SE New York, near New York City.
new theology — a movement away from orthodox or fundamentalist theological thought, originating in the late 19th century and aimed at reconciling modern concepts and discoveries in science and philosophy with theology.
newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
northwestern — Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
northwesters — Plural form of northwester.
northwestnet — (NWNET) Kochmer, J., and NorthWestNet, "The Internet Passport: NorthWestNets Guide to Our World Online", NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA, 1992.
not with you — not able to grasp or follow what you are saying
noteworthily — worthy of notice or attention; notable; remarkable: a noteworthy addition to our collection of rare books.
now and then — occasionally
nowhere near — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
on the prowl — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
on the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
on the watch — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
on the whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
one-man show — a show with only one performer
onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
overwhelming — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
owing to sth — You use owing to when you are introducing the reason for something.
pelton wheel — a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.
phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
rainbow fish — guppy.

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