11-letter words containing n, s, w
- low-density — having a low concentration.
- low-scoring — (of a sports match) having, getting, or ending in a low score
- low-tension — subjected to, or capable of operating under, relatively low voltage: low-tension wire. Abbreviation: lt, L.T.
- madonnawise — in the manner of a Madonna
- mains water — gas supplied to a building through pipes
- marine snow — small particles of organic biogenic marine sediment, including the remains of organisms, faecal matter, and the shells of planktonic organisms, that slowly drift down to the sea floor
- marrowbones — Plural form of marrowbone.
- mawkishness — characterized by sickly sentimentality; weakly emotional; maudlin.
- meadowlands — Plural form of meadowland.
- megan’s law — any of various statutes requiring that public notification be given of the whereabouts of persons who have been convicted of certain sexual crimes
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- minesweeper — a specially equipped ship used for dragging a body of water in order to remove or destroy enemy mines.
- mineworkers — Plural form of mineworker.
- money wages — wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power
- monsoon low — the seasonal low found over most continents in summer and, to a lesser extent, over adjacent ocean areas in winter.
- moonflowers — Plural form of moonflower.
- mounds view — a town in E Minnesota.
- narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
- narrowboats — Plural form of narrowboat.
- new castile — a region in central Spain: formerly a province. 27,933 sq. mi. (72,346 sq. km).
- new cuisine — nouvelle cuisine.
- new english — Modern English.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- new glasgow — a city in N central Nova Scotia, in E Canada.
- new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
- new planets — the outer planets Uranus, Neptune, and (formerly) Pluto, only discovered comparatively recently
- new realism — neorealism.
- new yorkese — the speech thought to be characteristic of a person from New York City, as in pronunciation or vocabulary.
- news agency — a business organization that gathers news for transmittal to its subscribers. Compare press association.
- news editor — a person who is in charge of the news desk at a newspaper or broadcasting organization and whose job is to oversee the selection and preparation of news items for publication or broadcast
- news reader — (messaging) A browser program which enables a user to read articles posted to Usenet. Articles may be stored in a local (or NFS-mounted) spool directory, or retrieved via NNTP. Examples are rn, GNUS, and nn.
- news vendor — a person who sells newspapers or periodicals.
- news weekly — a weekly newspaper or news magazine
- newsagent's — a shop that sells newspapers and magazines
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- newscasting — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsdealers — Plural form of newsdealer.
- newsletters — Plural form of newsletter.
- newsmongers — Plural form of newsmonger.
- newspersons — Plural form of newsperson.
- newsvendors — Plural form of newsvendor.
- newswriting — writing for publication in a newspaper, often reporting current events; journalism.
- nimzowitsch — Aaron Isayevich (ɪˈzaɪjɛvɪtʃ) 1886–1935, Latvian chess player and theorist; influential in enunciating the principles of the hypermodern school, of which he was the main instigator
- nippleworts — Plural form of nipplewort.
- nonwashable — Not washable.
- northwester — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northwest.
- old windsor — a royal residence in the time of Edward the Confessor, 3 km (2 miles) southeast of the town of Windsor in Berkshire
- ombudswoman — a woman employed to investigate complaints against government or institutional officials, employers, etc.
- ombudswomen — Plural form of ombudswoman.
- open switch — (IBM, probably from railways) An unresolved question, issue, or problem.