13-letter words containing w, a, g, e
- news magazine — periodical about current affairs
- newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- nominal wages — minimum pay
- norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
- off the wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
- old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
- optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
- 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.
- outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
- overflow flag — overflow bit
- passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
- peg away (at) — to work steadily and persistently (at)
- periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
- power walking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- power-sharing — Power-sharing is a political arrangement in which different or opposing groups all take part in government together.
- proxy gateway — proxy server
- queen dowager — the widow of a king.
- railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
- rayleigh wave — a wave along the surface of a solid, elastic body, especially along the surface of the earth.
- re-forwarding — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
- scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
- sedge warbler — a European songbird, Acrocephalus schoenobaenus, of reed beds and swampy areas, having a streaked brownish plumage with white eye stripes: family Muscicapidae (Old World flycatchers, etc)
- semiwater gas — a mixed gas formed by passing steam and air over a carbon source
- sepia drawing — a drawing with a brownish tone, produced by first bleaching it (after fixing) and then immersing it for a short time in a solution of sodium sulphide or of alkaline thiourea
- sewing basket — box for sewing accessories
- show the flag — to assert a claim, as to a territory or stretch of water, by military presence
- siege warfare — the use of offensive operations carried out to capture a fortified place by surrounding it, severing its communications and supply lines, and deploying weapons against it
- slow-speaking — tending to speak slowly
- speed walking — power walking.
- sperm washing — a technique that separates sperm from the seminal fluid, used especially for isolating active sperm for artificial insemination.
- stage whisper — a loud whisper on a stage, meant to be heard by the audience.
- standing wave — a wave in a medium in which each point on the axis of the wave has an associated constant amplitude ranging from zero at the nodes to a maximum at the antinodes.
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- stewing steak — Stewing steak is beef which is suitable for cooking slowly in a stew.
- strong waters — an archaic name for alcoholic drink
- swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
- swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
- sweated goods — goods that are made by exploited labour
- swedenborgian — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- sweethearting — the granting of unauthorized discounts or the abetting of shoplifting by staff in a shop
- turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
- twelfth grade — (in the US) the final year of secondary school after which students usually graduate at age 17 or 18
- vegetable wax — a wax, or a substance resembling wax, obtained from various plants, as the wax palm.
- wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994