13-letter words containing s, w, o
- knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
- knowledgeless — acquaintance with facts, truths, or principles, as from study or investigation; general erudition: knowledge of many things.
- kuskokwim bay — an inlet of the Bering Sea in Alaska. Length: about 160 km (100 miles)
- landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
- law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
- locked bowels — constipation.
- loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
- 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).
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- mark my words — If you say 'mark my words' to someone, you are emphasizing that something you have just warned them about is very likely to happen, especially when you think they should change their attitude or behaviour to prevent it.
- marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
- marrow squash — any of several squashes having a smooth surface, an oblong shape, and a hard rind.
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- 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.
- mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- 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.
- moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
- mosquito hawk — nighthawk (def 1).
- mushroom town — a town that has grown very quickly
- naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
- narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- 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.
- nervous wreck — sb anxious
- network storm — broadcast storm
- new economics — Keynesianism.
- new stone age — the Neolithic period.
- new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
- 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.
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- 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.
- nowhere-dense — (of a set in a topological space) having a closure that contains no open set with any points in it; nondense.