13-letter words containing w, e, i, n, r
- 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.
- magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
- measuringworm — the larva of any geometrid moth, which progresses by bringing the rear end of the body forward and then advancing the front end.
- midwesterners — Plural form of midwesterner, an alternative capitalization of 'Midwesterner'.
- milne-edwards — Henri [ahn-ree] /ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1800–85, French zoologist.
- mineral water — water containing dissolved mineral salts or gases, especially such water considered healthful to drink.
- mineral wells — a city in N central Texas.
- minstrel show — a once popular type of stage show featuring comic dialogue, song, and dance in highly conventionalized patterns, performed by a troupe of actors traditionally comprising two end men, a chorus in blackface, and an interlocutor. Developed in the U.S. in the 19th century, this entertainment portrayed negative racial stereotypes and declined in popularity in the 20th century.
- mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
- mooring tower — a mast or tower to which a balloon or airship may be moored
- mother-in-law — the mother of one's husband or wife.
- mouthwatering — very appetizing in appearance, aroma, or description: a mouth-watering dessert.
- mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
- mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
- 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 brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
- new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
- 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.
- new jerseyite — of New Jersey
- new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
- 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.
- nowheresville — a remote or isolated town or village.
- nurse-midwife — a nurse skilled in assisting women in the prenatal period and in childbirth, especially at home or in another nonhospital setting.
- 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.
- once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
- 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.
- overborrowing — to take or obtain with the promise to return the same or an equivalent: Our neighbor borrowed my lawn mower.
- overflowingly — to an excessive degree
- overwintering — to pass, spend, or survive the winter: to overwinter on the Riviera.
- 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.
- peninsula war — a war (1808–14) in Spain and Portugal, with British, Spanish, and Portuguese troops opposing the French.
- piers plowman — (The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman) an alliterative poem written in three versions (1360–99), ascribed to William Langland.
- 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.
- pre-interview — a formal meeting in which one or more persons question, consult, or evaluate another person: a job interview.
- prison warder — an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail