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

  • new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
  • 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.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • 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.
  • nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
  • out-of-towner — a visitor from another town or city: The World's Fair brought many out-of-towners to New Orleans.
  • outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
  • outdoorswomen — Plural form of outdoorswoman.
  • 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.
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • pulling power — the ability to attract and influence other people
  • puncture weed — a caltrop, Tribulus terrestris, having spiny fruit that can puncture tires.
  • pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
  • queen dowager — the widow of a king.
  • queen's award — either of two awards instituted by royal warrant (1976) for a sustained increase in export earnings by a British firm (Queen's Award for Export Achievement) or for an advance in technology (Queen's Award for Technological Achievement)
  • quinine water — carbonated water containing lemon, lime, sweetener, and quinine, often used as a mixer.
  • rainbow trout — a trout, Salmo gairdnerii, native in the coastal waters and streams from Baja California to Alaska, used as a food and game fish.
  • red underwing — a large noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having dull forewings and hind wings coloured red and black
  • roll-your-own — a cigarette that one has rolled oneself.
  • run away with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • south windsor — a town in N Connecticut.
  • south-western — South-western means in or from the south-west of a region or country.
  • spurious wing — alula (def 1).
  • sunflower oil — oil obtained from sunflower seeds
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • sweet-natured — having a pleasant temperament and a gentle nature
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • thundershower — a shower accompanied by thunder and lightning.
  • torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
  • turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
  • twenty-fourmo — a book size of about 3 5/8 × 5 1/8 inches (9 × 13 cm), determined by printing on sheets folded to form 24 leaves or 48 pages.
  • twenty-fourth — next after the twenty-third; being the ordinal number for 24.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unbowdlerized — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • und so weiter — and so forth; et cetera. Abbreviation: usw, u.s.w.
  • underwhelming — to fail to interest or astonish: After all the ballyhoo, most critics were underwhelmed by the movie.
  • underwithhold — to withhold too little.
  • underwritings — acts or instances of underwriting
  • untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • 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
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