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

  • trawler owner — someone who owns a vessel used for trawling or fishing with a trawl net or trawl line
  • turangawaewae — the area that is a person's home
  • tyne and wear — a metropolitan county in N England.
  • ultrawideband — a transmission technique using a very wide spectrum of frequencies that enables high-speed transfer of data
  • unputdownable — (especially of a book or periodical) so interesting or suspenseful as to compel reading.
  • unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
  • unwarrantedly — in an unwarranted manner
  • unwhistleable — incapable of being whistled
  • unwomanliness — the quality or state of being unwomanly
  • unworkmanlike — not appropriate to or befitting a good workman
  • unwritten law — a law that rests for its authority on custom, judicial decision, etc., as distinguished from law originating in written command, statute, or decree.
  • urban dweller — a person who lives in an urban area
  • urban renewal — the rehabilitation of city areas by renovating or replacing dilapidated buildings with new housing, public buildings, parks, roadways, industrial areas, etc., often in accordance with comprehensive plans.
  • van der merwe — a stereotypical figure humorously representing Boer stupidity and prejudice
  • van der waals — Johannes Diderik (joːˈhɑnəs ˈdiːdərik). 1837–1923, Dutch physicist, noted for his research on the equations of state of gases and liquids: Nobel prize for physics in 1910
  • vandyke brown — a medium brown color.
  • venereal wart — a soft warty nodule of viral origin that occurs on the mucosal surfaces of the genitalia or around the anus, often in a cluster; condyloma acuminatum.
  • vowel harmony — a phonological rule in some languages, as Hungarian and Turkish, requiring that the vowels of a word all share a specified feature, such as front or back articulation, thereby conditioning the form that affixes may take, as in forming the Turkish plurals evler “houses” from ev “house” and adamlar “men” from adam “man.”.
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wagon soldier — a field-artillery soldier.
  • wait a minute — People often use expressions such as wait a minute or just a minute when they want to stop you doing or saying something.
  • walking horse — Tennessee walking horse.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • walter piston — Walter, 1894–1976, U.S. composer.
  • wandering jew — a legendary character condemned to roam without rest because he struck Christ on the day of the Crucifixion.
  • wang jing wei — 1883–1944, Chinese politician. A leading revolutionary, he struggled (1927–32) with Chiang Kai-shek for control of the Kuomintang. During World War II he was head of a Japanese puppet government in Nanjing
  • wankel engine — an internal-combustion rotary engine that utilizes a triangular rotor that revolves in a chamber (rather than a conventional piston that moves up and down in a cylinder): it has fewer moving parts and is generally smaller and lighter for a given horsepower.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • wappenshawing — (formerly) the reviewing of the men under arms in a Scottish lordship or district
  • war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
  • war of nerves — a conflict using psychological techniques, as propaganda, threats, and false rumors, rather than direct violence, in order to confuse, thwart, or intimidate an enemy.
  • war-weariness — exhaustion and low spirits caused by a long period of fighting
  • warner robins — a city in central Georgia.
  • warping frame — a wooden frame containing evenly spaced pegs on which the warp is wound in preparation for weaving.
  • warranty deed — a deed containing a covenant of warranty.
  • warren burger — Warren Earl, 1907–1995, U.S. jurist: chief justice of the U.S. 1969–86.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • wash-and-wear — noting or pertaining to a garment that can be washed, that dries quickly, and that requires little or no ironing; drip-dry.
  • wasterfulness — the state of being wasteful
  • wasting asset — an unreplaceable business asset of limited life, such as a coal mine or an oil well
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water boatman — any of numerous aquatic insects of the family Corixidae, having paddlelike hind legs.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • water diviner — a person able to locate the presence of water, esp underground, with a divining rod
  • water leguaan — a large amphibious monitor lizard, Varanus niloticus, which can grow up to 2 or 3 m
  • water parsnip — a perennial aquatic plant; Berula erecta
  • water parting — a watershed or divide.
  • water spaniel — either of two breeds of spaniels, used for retrieving waterfowl.
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