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13-letter words containing w, a, r, i, e

  • mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
  • model railway — a model of a small-scale railway system, often with toy moving trains
  • mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
  • mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
  • narrow-bodied — (of a jet aircraft) having a narrow fuselage and a single aisle with seats on either side.
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • narrow-minded — having or showing a prejudiced mind, as persons or opinions; biased.
  • neo-darwinism — the theory of evolution as expounded by later students of Charles Darwin, especially Weismann, holding that natural selection accounts for evolution and denying the inheritance of acquired characters.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • new fairfield — a town in SW Connecticut.
  • new hampshire — a state in the NE United States. 9304 sq. mi. (24,100 sq. km). Capital: Concord. Abbreviation: NH (for use with zip code), N.H.
  • 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.
  • obi-wan error — (programming)   /oh'bee-won" er"*r/ (RPI, from "off-by-one" and the Obi-Wan Kenobi character in "Star Wars") A kind of off-by-one error.
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • ordinary wave — Radio. (of the two waves into which a radio wave is divided in the ionosphere under the influence of the earth's magnetic field) the wave with characteristics more nearly resembling those that the undivided wave would have exhibited in the absence of the magnetic field.
  • 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
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • pearly whites — white and lustrous as a pearl.
  • peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • perrier water — a sparkling mineral water from the south of France
  • piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
  • power failure — electricity outage
  • power loading — the act of a person or thing that loads.
  • power station — a generating station.
  • 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.
  • prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail
  • quinine water — carbonated water containing lemon, lime, sweetener, and quinine, often used as a mixer.
  • rabbit warren — warren.
  • railway guide — a publication containing routes and timetables for train journeys
  • rainbow snake — a burrowing snake, Farancia erytrogramma, of the southeastern U.S., having red and black stripes along the body, a red and yellow underside, and a sharp-tipped tail used in maneuvering prey.
  • raw materials — Raw materials are materials that are in their natural state, before they are processed or used in manufacturing.
  • 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.
  • red river war — a punitive campaign (1874–75) led by General Sheridan against hostile Indians in the region of the Red River and the Llano Estacado.
  • relative wind — the velocity or direction of airflow with respect to the body it surrounds, especially an airfoil.
  • ride the wave — to enjoy a period of success and good fortune
  • safflower oil — an oil expressed or extracted fromsafflower seeds, used in cooking, as a salad oil, and as a vehicle for medicines, paints, varnishes, etc.
  • saint andrews — a seaport in the Fife region, in E Scotland: resort; golf courses.
  • salary review — the, often annual, assessment or review of the salary or paid to an employee, where decisions are taken on whether the employee's pay should be increased, etc
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • sanitary ware — plumbing fixtures, as sinks or toilet bowls, made of ceramic material or enameled metal.
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