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

  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant 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.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • 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
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hertzian wave — an electromagnetic wave produced by oscillations in an electric circuit, as a radio or radar wave: first investigated by H. R. Hertz.
  • house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
  • housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • in deep water — the deep part of a body of water, especially an area of the ocean floor having a depth greater than 18,000 feet (5400 meters).
  • in the way of — similar to, like
  • indecency law — the law relating to indecency
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • interwreathed — Simple past tense and past participle of interwreathe.
  • irc penis war — penis war
  • isolated pawn — a pawn without pawns of the same colour on neighbouring files
  • japanese wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus hodophylax, of Japan.
  • kenneth arrow — Kenneth Joseph, born 1921, U.S. economist: Nobel Prize 1972.
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
  • know by heart — have memorized
  • knowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgeably — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • knowledgebase — Alternative spelling of knowledge base.
  • kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
  • lake dwelling — a house, especially of prehistoric times, built on piles or other support over the water of a lake.
  • lake winnipeg — a lake in S Canada, in Manitoba: drains through the Nelson River into Hudson Bay. Area: 23 553 sq km (9094 sq miles)
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • lantern wheel — a wheel, used like a pinion, consisting essentially of two parallel disks or heads whose peripheries are connected by a series of bars that engage with the teeth of another wheel.
  • lantern-jawed — having a lantern jaw.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law of nature — an empirical truth of great generality, conceived of as a physical (but not a logical) necessity, and consequently licensing counterfactual conditionals
  • law stationer — a stationer selling articles used by lawyers
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • leibniz's law — the principle that two expressions satisfy exactly the same predicates if and only if they both refer to the same subject
  • lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
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