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13-letter words containing w, a, r, g

  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • great 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.
  • gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
  • growing pains — If a person or organization suffers from growing pains, they experience temporary difficulties and problems at the beginning of a particular stage of development.
  • growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
  • growth market — a rapidly expanding market
  • growth shares — ordinary shares with good prospects of appreciation in yield and value
  • guerrilla war — a war between an established army and a guerrilla group
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hand-wringing — a physical expression of concern, distress, or guilt.
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
  • heating power — power that can be used to heat something
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
  • hot-water bag — a bag, usually of rubber, for holding hot water to apply warmth to some part of the body, as the feet.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • light railway — a transport system using small trains or trams, often serving parts of a large metropolitan area
  • lying-in ward — a room where women were confined in childbirth
  • magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
  • mangel-wurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
  • marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
  • measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • megawatt hour — a unit of energy equal to the work done by a power of a million watts in one hour
  • morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • new englander — an area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.
  • newgroup wars — /n[y]oo'groop worz/ [Usenet] The salvos of dueling "newgroup" and "rmgroup" messages sometimes exchanged by persons on opposite sides of a dispute over whether a newsgroup should be created net-wide, or (even more frequently) whether an obsolete one should be removed. These usually settle out within a week or two as it becomes clear whether the group has a natural constituency (usually, it doesn't). At times, especially in the completely anarchic alt hierarchy, the names of newsgroups themselves become a form of comment or humour; e.g. the spinoff of alt.swedish.chef.bork.bork.bork from alt.tv.muppets in early 1990, or any number of specialised abuse groups named after particularly notorious flamers, e.g. alt.weemba.
  • newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • norwegian sea — part of the Arctic Ocean, N and E of Iceland and between Greenland and Norway.
  • not far wrong — Someone or something that is not far wrong, not far out, or not far off is almost correct or almost accurate.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • 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
  • pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • playwrighting — the writing of plays
  • 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.
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