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13-letter words containing w, e, n

  • bowling-green — a game played with wooden balls on a level, closely mowed green having a slight bias, the object being to roll one's ball as near as possible to a smaller white ball at the other end of the green. Also called bowls, bowling on the green. Compare bowl2 (def 2), bowling green, jack1 (def 7), rink (def 5).
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break it down — stop it
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • bretton woods — resort in the White Mountains, N.H.: site of a United Nations monetary conference (1944) at which the International Monetary Fund was established
  • broken-winded — suffering from heaves
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brown creeper — a small bush bird, Finschia novaeseelandiae, of South Island, New Zealand
  • brownie guide — a member of the Brownie Guides, one of the junior branches (aged 7–10 years) in The Guide Association
  • brownie point — If someone does something to score brownie points, they do it because they think they will be praised for it.
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • bulwer-lytton — Edward George Earle Lytton1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth 1803-73; Eng. novelist & playwright: father of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
  • businesswoman — A businesswoman is a woman who works in business.
  • buttoned-down — conventional or conservative
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
  • cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
  • chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
  • chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
  • chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
  • chimney wheel — smokejack.
  • chinese white — white zinc oxide, formerly used in paints
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
  • cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
  • concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
  • congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • congresswomen — Plural form of congresswoman.
  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
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