13-letter words containing n, o, w

narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
ne'er-do-well — an idle, worthless person; a person who is ineffectual, unsuccessful, or completely lacking in merit; good-for-nothing.
negative glow — the luminous region between the Crookes dark space and the Faraday dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
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 layer — (networking) (communications subnet layer) The third lowest layer in the OSI seven layer model. The network layer determines routing of packets of data from sender to receiver via the data link layer and is used by the transport layer. The most common network layer protocol is IP.
network storm — broadcast storm
new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
new economics — Keynesianism.
new stone age — the Neolithic period.
new to a game — If you are new to a particular game, you have not done a particular activity or been in a particular situation before.
new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
new york fern — a shield fern, Thelypteris noveboracenis, of eastern North America, having yellowish-green fronds.
new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
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.
newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
nominal wages — minimum pay
non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
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.
norwalk virus — a norovirus.
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.
not far wrong — Someone or something that is not far wrong, not far out, or not far off is almost correct or almost accurate.
now and again — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
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 power — power derived from nuclear energy.
nylon letdown — evacuation from an aircraft by means of a parachute.
obi-wan error — (programming) /oh'bee-won" er"*r/ (RPI, from "off-by-one" and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars") A kind of off-by-one error.
of many words — talkative
of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
off 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.
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.
old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
on a par with — If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important.
on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
once and away — conclusively
once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.

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