12-letter words containing w, r, a
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- network card — network interface controller
- new learning — the humanist revival of classical Greek and Latin studies and the development of Biblical scholarship in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe.
- new paradigm — a set of beliefs that replaces another set which is believed no longer to apply
- new urbanism — an international movement concerned with tackling the problems associated with urban sprawl and car dependency
- new york bay — a bay of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Hudson, W of Long Island and E of Staten Island and New Jersey.
- newport east — a town in SE Rhode Island.
- news release — a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
- news theatre — a cinema that specialized in showing news films
- newsgatherer — A person involved in newsgathering.
- 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.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
- nonrenewable — able to be renewed: a library book that is not renewable.
- norman wells — a settlement in the W Northwest Territories, in NW Canada, on the Mackenzie River: oil wells.
- norway maple — a European maple, Acer platanoides, having bright-green leaves, grown as a shade tree in the U.S.
- nowhere near — in or at no place; not anywhere: The missing pen was nowhere to be found.
- nurserywoman — a woman who owns or operates a plant nursery.
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- palm warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica palmarum, brown above and whitish or yellowish below.
- paper-weight — a small, heavy object of glass, metal, etc., placed on papers to keep them from scattering.
- paraffin wax — paraffin in its solid state.
- parallelwise — in a parallel manner
- part-writing — the aspect of composition concerned with the writing of parts, esp counterpoint
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passage work — writing that is often extraneous to the thematic material of a work and is typically of a virtuosic or decorative character: passagework consisting of scales, arpeggios, trills, and double octaves.
- 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.
- pay-per-view — a system requiring that a subscriber pay for each program viewed: championship games seen only on pay-per-view.
- peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
- pearly white — white and lustrous as a pearl.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- 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.
- pine warbler — a warbler, Dendroica pinus, inhabiting pine forests of the southeastern U.S.
- 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
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- plate warmer — a device for warming plates
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- pot-walloper — (in some boroughs before the Reform Bill of 1832) a man who qualified as a householder, and therefore a voter, by virtue of ownership of his own fireplace at which to boil pots.