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14-letter words containing o, n, w, a

  • man about town — a socially active, sophisticated man who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.; playboy; boulevardier.
  • man of sorrows — a person alluded to by Isaiah (Isa. 53:3) and interpreted as being the Messiah
  • man-about-town — a socially active, sophisticated man who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.; playboy; boulevardier.
  • mangold-wurzel — mangel-wurzel.
  • mangrove swamp — a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.
  • master workman — a worker in charge.
  • maxwell montes — a compact mountain range on Ishtar Terra, one of the regions of highest elevation on Venus.
  • meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
  • meadow saffron — autumn crocus.
  • 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.
  • medicine woman — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a woman believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; a female shaman.
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • 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.
  • midwall column — a column or the like carrying a wall overhanging it on both sides.
  • migrant-worker — migrating, especially of people; migratory.
  • mount wrangell — a mountain in S Alaska, in the W Wrangell Mountains. Height: 4269 m (14 005 ft)
  • mouth-watering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • mowing machine — a machine for mowing or cutting down grass, grain, etc.
  • nature worship — a system of religion based on the deification and worship of natural forces and phenomena.
  • neural network — artificial neural network
  • new caledonian — of, from, or relating to New Caledonia
  • new carrollton — a city in S central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
  • new journalism — journalism containing the writer's personal opinions and reactions and often fictional asides as added color.
  • new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
  • new york state — New York (def 1).
  • newfoundlander — a native or inhabitant of Newfoundland.
  • news broadcast — TV, radio: current affairs item
  • newspaperwoman — a woman employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspaperwomen — Plural form of newspaperwoman.
  • no matter what — whatever
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • novell netware — (operating system, networking)   Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
  • nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
  • old low german — the language of the German lowlands before c1100. Abbreviation: OLG.
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
  • on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
  • 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.
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
  • one-woman show — a show or performance performed by one woman
  • over-awareness — the state or condition of being aware; having knowledge; consciousness: The object of the information drive is to raise awareness of what spreads HIV/AIDS.
  • 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-operator — a driver, especially of a truck or taxicab, who owns and operates a vehicle used to earn a living.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • paint the town — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • panoramic view — wide vista or landscape
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