12-letter words containing w, a, i, n
- new egyptian — the Egyptian language, c. 1600-700 b.c.
- new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new-laid egg — an egg that has been freshly laid by a chicken
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newsmagazine — a periodical specializing in reports and commentaries on current events, usually issued weekly.
- newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
- newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
- night sweats — heavy sweating during sleep, especially as a symptom of certain diseases, as tuberculosis.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- nonnewtonian — Not Newtonian.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- on a bowline — beating close to the wind
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
- passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- pkware, inc. — (company, compression) The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
- post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
- powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
- powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
- radio window — the range of wavelengths at which the earth's atmosphere is transparent to radio waves.
- railway line — railroad route
- rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
- reading week — university: week-long break from classes
- renewability — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
- sandwich man — a person with advertising boards hung from the shoulders.
- satin walnut — the brown heartwood of the sweet gum tree, used for furniture, fittings, and panelling
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- sea bindweed — a species of bindweed, Calystegia soldanella, which grows on beaches in E North America, Europe, and Asia
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- semantic web — an extension of the World Wide Web in which data is structured and XML-tagged on the basis of its meaning or content, so that computers can process and integrate the information without human intervention: the semantic Web acting as a global database or huge brain.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- sewing table — a worktable for holding sewing materials, often supplied with a bag or pouch for needlework.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- siamese twin — (not in technical use) conjoined twin.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.