13-letter words containing r, w
- new york fern — a shield fern, Thelypteris noveboracenis, of eastern North America, having yellowish-green fronds.
- 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.
- nonsense word — a word that has no real meaning
- north by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of north. Abbreviation: NbW.
- north-western — North-western means in or from the north-west of a region or country.
- northeastward — the northeast.
- northwesterly — Situated in, or pointing to, the northwest.
- 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.
- nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- 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.
- 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
- of one's word — given to or noted for keeping one's promises
- office worker — employee in an office
- old northwest — a territory of Canada lying N of 60 degrees N and extending E from the Yukon Territory to Nunavut. 519,732 sq. mi. (1,346,106 sq. km) Capital: Yellowknife.
- 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.
- once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
- 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.
- otherworldish — characterized by otherworldliness
- 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.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- 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.
- overborrowing — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.