12-letter words containing w, o, r, n
- 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.
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- 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.
- quo warranto — (formerly, in England) a writ calling upon a person to show by what authority he or she claims an office, franchise, or liberty.
- radio window — the range of wavelengths at which the earth's atmosphere is transparent to radio waves.
- rainbow bird — an Australian bee-eater, Merops ornatus, with brightly coloured plumage. It feeds in flight and nests in sandy burrows
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- rainbow flag — a multicoloured flag used as a symbol of peace; often used to represent gay and lesbian pride
- rainbow roof — a gable roof in the form of a broad Gothic arch, with gently sloping convex surfaces.
- randallstown — a city in N Maryland, near Baltimore.
- ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
- reisterstown — a city in N Maryland.
- renownedness — celebrated; famous.
- rice growing — the cultivation of rice as a food crop
- ring network — (networking, topology) A network topology in which all nodes are connected to a single wire in a ring or point-to-point. There are no endpoints. This topology is used by token ring networks. Compare: bus network, star network.
- rolling news — current affairs: continuous
- rostenkowski — Dan(iel) 1928–2010, U.S. politician: congressman 1959–94.
- round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
- round window — a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run the show — to cause or allow to be seen; exhibit; display.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- sea lungwort — a plant, Mertensia maritima, of the borage family, growing on northern seacoasts and having leaves with an oysterlike flavor.
- second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
- series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
- servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
- shooting war — open conflict between hostile nations involving direct military engagements.
- short-winded — short of breath; liable to difficulty in breathing.
- signal tower — a tower from which railway signals are controlled or displayed
- sink or swim — fail or succeed
- slow neutron — a neutron with low kinetic energy, especially one slowed by the moderator in a nuclear reactor.
- slow-burning — (of combustible material) burning relatively slowly
- small wonder — (I am) hardly surprised (that)
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- 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.
- snow scooter — a small open powered vehicle mounted on skis for travelling on snow
- snow thrower — snow blower.
- snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
- snowboarding — a board for gliding on snow, resembling a wide ski, to which both feet are secured and that one rides in an upright position.
- snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
- snowy plover — a small plover, Charadrius alexandrinus, mainly of the U.S. and Mexico, having a white breast and sand-colored upper parts.
- song sparrow — a small emberizine songbird, Melospiza melodia, common in North America.
- southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
- southwestern — the point or direction midway between south and west. Abbreviation: SW.
- sponged ware — spongeware.