13-letter words containing w, a, i, n
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- drainage wind — Meteorology. gravity wind.
- draw the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- drawing paper — artist's paper for drawing and sketching
- drawing table — a table having a surface consisting of a drawing board adjustable to various heights and angles.
- dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
- early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
- earning power — business: ability to profit
- edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- finagle's law — (humour) The generalised or "folk" version of Murphy's Law, fully named "Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives" and usually rendered "Anything that can go wrong, will". One variant favoured among hackers is "The perversity of the Universe tends toward a maximum". The label "Finagle's Law" was popularised by SF author Larry Niven in several stories depicting a frontier culture of asteroid miners; this "Belter" culture professed a religion and/or running joke involving the worship of the dread god Finagle and his mad prophet Murphy.
- final whistle — sport: whistle indicating end of match
- finback whale — rorqual
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
- flaminian way — an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
- frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
- garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
- garrison town — a town containing a military base
- genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
- giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
- giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
- giant redwood — big tree.
- girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
- glass-blowing — the art or process of forming or shaping a mass of molten or heat-softened glass into ware by blowing air into it through a tube.
- go along with — permit, consent to
- godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
- goodwin sands — a line of shoals at the N entrance to the Strait of Dover, off the SE coast of England. 10 miles (16 km) long.
- gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.