13-letter words containing r, a, w, n

narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
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.
nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
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.
new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
new zealander — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
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.
newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
night crawler — an earthworm.
nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
niklaus wirth — (person) The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
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.
non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
northeastward — the northeast.
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.
nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
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
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.
optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
organ whistle — a steam or air whistle in which the jet is forced up against the thin edge of a pipe closed at the top.
outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
playwrighting — the writing of plays

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