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13-letter words containing w, a, r

  • new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
  • new zealander — a country in the S Pacific, SE of Australia, consisting of North Island, South Island, and adjacent small islands: a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. 103,416 sq. mi. (267,845 sq. km). Capital: Wellington.
  • newbery award — an annual award for the most distinguished book for juveniles.
  • 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.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
  • nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • niklaus wirth — (person)   The designer of the Modula-2, Modula-3, and, in around 1970, Pascal programming languages.
  • no fewer than — You use no fewer than to emphasize that a number is surprisingly large.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • non-renewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
  • non-warranted — authorization, sanction, or justification.
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • norwalk virus — a norovirus.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • 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.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • 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.
  • of many words — talkative
  • old norwegian — the language of Norway as spoken and written from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 14th centuries.
  • on a par with — If you say that two people or things are on a par with each other, you mean that they are equally good or bad, or equally important.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • 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.
  • outdoorswoman — a woman devoted to outdoor sports and recreational activities.
  • outlaw regime — a dangerously unpredictable political regime, as of a country, state, etc, which disregards international law or diplomacy
  • outlaw strike — wildcat strike.
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • outward bound — (in Britain) a scheme to provide adventure training for young people
  • outward-bound — headed in an outward direction, as toward foreign ports: We passed an outward-bound ship as we came into the harbor.
  • overflow flag — overflow bit
  • pair trawling — the act or practice of using two boats to trawl for fish
  • parent-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • parker bowles — Camilla (née Shand). born 1947, became the second wife of Prince Charles in 2005; created Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay
  • pass the word — If you pass the word, you tell someone something that another person has told you.
  • passager hawk — young hawk or falcon caught while on migration
  • 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.
  • permanent way — the roadbed and track of a railroad.
  • 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.
  • pipiwharauroa — a Pacific migratory bird with a metallic green-gold plumage
  • play on words — a pun or the act of punning.
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