13-letter words containing u, n, w, o, r
- pure new wool — the best wool or wool blended fibres
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- 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.
- roll-your-own — a cigarette that one has rolled oneself.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- underwithhold — to withhold too little.
- untrustworthy — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
- unworkability — the quality or state of being unworkable
- unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
- upon my word! — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- ursine howler — the red howling monkey, Alouatta seniculus, of northern South America.
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- weather-bound — delayed or shut in by bad weather.
- well-grounded — based on good reasons; well-founded: His opposition to the scheme is well-grounded.
- wend your way — If you wend your way in a particular direction, you walk, especially slowly, casually, or carefully, in that direction.
- whole numbers — Also called counting number. one of the positive integers or zero; any of the numbers (0, 1, 2, 3, …).
- wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
- witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
- women's group — A women's group is a group of women who meet regularly, usually in order to organize campaigns.
- wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
- wonderfulness — excellent; great; marvelous: We all had a wonderful weekend.
- work function — Physics. the least energy necessary to free an electron from a metal surface.
- working fluid — a liquid or gaseous working substance.
- working group — A working group is the same as a working party.
- works council — an elected body of employee representatives that deals with management regarding grievances, working conditions, wages, etc.