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12-letter words containing w, n, p

  • newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
  • newspapering — Present participle of newspaper.
  • newspaperism — anything characteristic of newspapers, esp a word or phrase used only by journalists
  • newspaperman — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • newspapermen — a person employed by a newspaper or wire service as a reporter, writer, editor, etc.
  • norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
  • on the prowl — to rove or go about stealthily, as in search of prey, something to steal, etc.
  • opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
  • overpowering — that overpowers; overwhelming: an overpowering conviction of the truth.
  • paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
  • part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
  • passion week — the week preceding Easter; Holy Week.
  • pastures new — If someone leaves for greener pastures, or in British English pastures new, they leave their job, their home, or the situation they are in for something they think will be much better.
  • patrol wagon — an enclosed truck or van used by the police to transport prisoners.
  • pelton wheel — a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.
  • pennywhistle — a cheap toy whistle orig. sold for a penny
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
  • pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
  • pioneer work — pioneer work does something that has not been done before, for example by developing or using new methods or techniques
  • pit dwelling — a primitive dwelling consisting of a pit excavated in the earth and roofed over.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
  • planet wheel — any of the gears in an epicyclic train surrounding and engaging with the sun gear.
  • polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
  • post-weaning — to accustom (a child or young animal) to food other than its mother's milk; cause to lose the need to suckle or turn to the mother for food.
  • power kiting — an activity in which a person, sitting in a small buggy or wearing skis, etc, is propelled by the wind power generated by a large kite to which he or she is attached by ropes
  • power window — Power windows are windows in a vehicle which are raised or lowered by an electric motor operated by a button or switch.
  • power-driven — powered by an electric motor
  • powerboating — a boat propelled by mechanical power.
  • powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
  • powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
  • powerwalking — a form of exercise that involves rapid walking with arms bent and swinging naturally.
  • preinterview — a preparatory meeting held before an interview
  • presweetened — already sweetened
  • printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
  • prizewinning — having won, or worthy of, a prize
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • punxsutawney — a town in central Pennsylvania: Groundhog Day celebration.
  • put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
  • show jumping — sport: horseriding event
  • showstopping — Theater. a performer or performance that wins enthusiastic or prolonged applause.
  • skew polygon — the figure formed by joining four or more points, not all in one plane, by the same number of lines
  • skip welding — a technique of spacing welds on thin structural members in order to balance and minimize internal stresses due to heat.
  • sleepwalking — an act of sleepwalking; somnambulation.
  • snow leopard — a long-haired, leopardlike feline, Panthera (Uncia) uncia, of mountain ranges of central Asia, having a relatively small head and a thick, creamy-gray coat with rosette spots: an endangered species.
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