7-letter words containing n, o, w
- norwich — a city in E Norfolk, in E England: cathedral.
- norwood — a town in E Massachusetts.
- notwork — (networking, humour) /not'werk/ A network that is performing badly. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca. 1988; but there are independent reports of the term from elsewhere. The joke sounds better in Russian, where "nyet" means "no", hence nyetwork /nyet'werk/.
- now for — People such as television presenters sometimes use now for when they are going to start talking about a different subject or presenting a new activity.
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- nowaday — Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
- nowcast — (meteorology) A weather forecast predicting the weather for a very short upcoming period, usually of a few hours.
- nowdays — Eye dialect of nowadays.
- nowhere — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- nowness — at the present time or moment: You are now using a dictionary.
- nutwood — any of various nutbearing trees, as the hickory or walnut.
- okinawa — the largest of the Ryukyu Islands, in the N Pacific, SW of Japan: taken by U.S. forces April–June 1945 in the last major amphibious campaign of World War II. 544 sq. mi. (1409 sq. km).
- oldowan — of or designating a Lower and Middle Pleistocene industrial complex of eastern Africa, characterized by assemblages of stone tools about two million years old that are the oldest well-documented artifacts yet known.
- oldtown — The historic district of a city or town.
- on view — an instance of seeing or beholding; visual inspection.
- one-two — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
- one-way — moving, or allowing movement in one direction only: a one-way street.
- onwards — toward a point ahead or in front; forward, as in space or time.
- outfawn — (rare) To exceed in fawning.
- outgnaw — to exceed in gnawing
- outwent — simple past tense of outgo.
- outwind — to exceed in fitness and stamina
- outwing — to fly faster or more skilfully than
- outworn — out-of-date, outmoded, or obsolete: outworn ideas; outworn methods.
- overnew — too new
- owenism — the socialistic philosophy of Robert Owen.
- own man — If you say that a man is his own man, you approve of the fact that he makes his decisions and his plans himself, and does not depend on other people.
- ownable — able to be owned
- ownsome — a solitary state
- pindown — a now-discredited system of disciplining children used in some British children's homes during the 1980s, which included the use of physical or emotional punishments such as locking a child in a room for long periods or making a child wear just underwear
- pinwork — (in the embroidery of needlepoint lace) crescent-shaped stitches raised from the surface of the design.
- pinworm — a small nematode worm, Enterobius vermicularis, infesting the intestine and migrating to the rectum and anus, especially in children.
- plowing — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- plowman — a man who plows.
- preworn — (of clothing) previously owned and worn; secondhand.
- rainbow — a bow or arc of prismatic colors appearing in the heavens opposite the sun and caused by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of rain. Compare primary rainbow, secondary rainbow.
- raytown — a city in W Missouri, near Kansas City.
- recrown — to crown (a king, queen, etc) again
- resworn — to make a solemn declaration or affirmation by some sacred being or object, as a deity or the Bible.
- rewound — an act or instance of rewinding.
- rowland — a masculine name
- rowling — J(oanne) K(athleen) born 1965, English author of children's books.
- rubdown — a massage, especially after exercise or a steam bath.
- rundown — a quick review or summary of main points of information, usually oral: This brief rundown of past events will bring you up to date.
- scowing — any of various vessels having a flat-bottomed rectangular hull with sloping ends, built in various sizes with or without means of propulsion, as barges, punts, rowboats, or sailboats.
- senwood — the light-colored wood of a Japanese tree, Kalopanax pictus (or K. ricinifolium), used for veneer in the manufacture of plywood.
- show in — guide into a place
- showing — a theatrical production, performance, or company.
- showman — a person who presents or produces a show, especially of a theatrical nature.
- snowcap — a layer of snow forming a cap on or covering the top of something, as a mountain peak or ridge.