13-letter words containing w, e, m
- disempowering — Present participle of disempower.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- dormer window — in sloping roof
- double whammy — twofold misfortune
- down syndrome — Down syndrome is a disorder that some people are born with. People who have Down syndrome have physical differences, such as shorter stature, and learning difficulties.
- drawing frame — a machine used to attenuate and straighten fibers by having them pass, in sliver form, through a series of double rollers, each pair of which revolves at a slightly greater speed than the preceding pair and reduces the number of strands originally fed into the machine to one extended fibrous strand doubled or redoubled in length.
- edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
- family jewels — a man's genitals
- fellow inmate — sb in same prison
- fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
- flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- formal review — (project) A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
- free-swimming — (of aquatic organisms) not attached to a base nor joined in a colony; capable of swimming about freely.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
- gallows frame — headframe.
- get somewhere — to make progress
- gresham's law — the tendency of the inferior of two forms of currency to circulate more freely than, or to the exclusion of, the superior, because of the hoarding of the latter.
- growth market — a rapidly expanding market
- heart-warming — gratifying; rewarding; satisfying: a heartwarming response to his work.
- home row keys — home keys
- homeownership — a person who owns a home.
- homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- honore morrow — Honoré Willsie [on-uh-rey wil-see,, on-uh-rey] /ˈɒn əˌreɪ ˈwɪl si,, ˌɒn əˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1880–1940, U.S. novelist.
- house-warming — a party to celebrate a person's or family's move to a new home.
- housewarmings — Plural form of housewarming.
- howler monkey — Central American simian variety
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- internet worm — (networking, security) The November 1988 worm perpetrated by Robert T. Morris. The worm was a program which took advantage of bugs in the Sun Unix sendmail program, Vax programs, and other security loopholes to distribute itself to over 6000 computers on the Internet. The worm itself had a bug which made it create many copies of itself on machines it infected, which quickly used up all available processor time on those systems. Some call it "The Great Worm" in a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days). In the fantasy history of his Middle Earth books, there were dragons powerful enough to lay waste to entire regions; two of these (Scatha and Glaurung) were known as "the Great Worms". This usage expresses the connotation that the RTM hack was a sort of devastating watershed event in hackish history; certainly it did more to make non-hackers nervous about the Internet than anything before or since.
- jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
- kwame nkrumah — Kwame [kwah-mee] /ˈkwɑ mi/ (Show IPA), 1909–72, president of Ghana 1960–66.
- 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.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- lower abdomen — lowest part of the belly
- lower chamber — lower house.
- 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.
- made-down bed — a makeshift bed, as a pallet, placed on the floor for sleeping.
- magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- make off with — take away
- mangel-wurzel — a variety of the beet Beta vulgaris, cultivated as food for livestock.
- manual worker — a person whose job involves working with the hands
- marbled white — any butterfly of the satyrid genus Melanargia, with panelled black-and-white wings, but technically a brown butterfly; found in grassland
- 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
- matter of law — an issue or matter to be determined according to the relevant principles of law.