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13-letter words containing w, a, s, e

  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • jigsaw puzzle — Also called picture puzzle. a set of irregularly cut pieces of pasteboard, wood, or the like that form a picture or design when fitted together.
  • kepler's laws — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • lambert's law — the law that the luminous intensity of a perfectly diffusing surface in any direction is proportional to the cosine of the angle between that direction and the normal to the surface, for which reason the surface will appear equally bright from all directions.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • loose forward — one of a number of forwards who play at the back or sides of the scrum and who are not bound wholly into it
  • lower austria — a province in NE Austria. 7092 sq. mi. (18,370 sq. km).
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
  • marriage vows — promises made as part of wedding ceremony
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • matthew paris — Matthew, Matthew of Paris.
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
  • mend o's ways — If someone who has been behaving badly mends their ways, they begin to behave well.
  • mendel's laws — law of segregation.
  • might as well — have no reason not to
  • milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
  • mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
  • moseley's law — the observed law that the square root of the frequencies of lines in atomic x-ray spectra depends linearly on the atomic number of the emitting atom.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • naples yellow — a yellow pigment, used by artists; lead antimonate
  • narrow squeak — an escape only just managed
  • narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
  • 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.
  • new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
  • new amsterdam — a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. Capital: New Amsterdam.
  • new australia — the colony on socialist principles founded by William Lane in Paraguay in 1893
  • new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
  • 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.
  • new jerusalem — heaven regarded as the prototype of the earthly Jerusalem; the heavenly city
  • new stone age — the Neolithic period.
  • new testament — the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
  • new-fashioned — lately come into fashion; made in a new style, fashion, etc.
  • 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.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • news magazine — periodical about current affairs
  • newsgathering — of or relating to the process of collecting and reporting the news.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • nominal wages — minimum pay
  • northeastward — the northeast.
  • northwestward — the northwest.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
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