13-letter words containing s, w, i, e
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
- light whiskey — a light-colored, mild whiskey aged in new or used casks for not less than four years
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low explosive — a relatively slow-burning explosive, usually set off by heat or friction, used for propelling charges in guns or for ordinary blasting.
- lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
- machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- middleweights — Plural form of middleweight.
- midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
- might as well — have no reason not to
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- 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.
- new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
- new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
- new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- new economics — Keynesianism.
- 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 jerseyite — of New Jersey
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- news bulletin — a usually short news broadcast
- news magazine — periodical about current affairs
- newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nitwittedness — The quality of being nitwitted.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- 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
- outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
- packet switch — packet switching
- paisley shawl — a shawl made from paisley fabric
- 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.
- pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.