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13-letter words containing w, a, n

  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • bow and arrow — a weapon consisting of a bow together with an arrow that may be fired from it
  • bowling alley — A bowling alley is a building which contains several tracks for bowling.
  • bowling match — a game of bowls
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break it down — stop it
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • by a long way — You can use by a long way to emphasize that something is, for example, much better, worse, or bigger than any other thing of that kind.
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • 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
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • 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
  • chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • common mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • common sallow — a small Eurasian willow tree, Salix cinerea, which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • companionways — Plural form of companionway.
  • company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
  • congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
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