13-letter words containing r, a, w, n
- train-workers — people who work on trains
- training wall — an artificial embankment or wall for directing the course of a stream.
- trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
- turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
- tyne and wear — a metropolitan county in N England.
- ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
- unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
- unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
- unwithdrawing — not withdrawing; not pulling back, retreating, or giving up
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
- urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
- urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
- van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
- vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
- venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
- vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
- walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
- wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
- war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
- war of nerves — a conflict using psychological techniques, as propaganda, threats, and false rumors, rather than direct violence, in order to confuse, thwart, or intimidate an enemy.
- war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
- warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
- warning light — a light that indicates danger
- warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
- warp knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted vertically in a flat form.
- warping board — a rectangular board containing evenly spaced pegs at each end on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
- warranty deed — a deed containing a covenant of warranty.
- warren burger — Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.
- warts and all — despite flaws
- wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
- wash-and-wear — noting or pertaining to a garment that can be washed, that dries quickly, and that requires little or no ironing; drip-dry.
- wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
- water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
- water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
- water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
- water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
- water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
- water parting — a watershed or divide.
- water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
- water turbine — a turbine driven by the momentum or reactive force of water.
- water-soaking — to soak or saturate with water.