Words containing nw
3 letter words containing nw
4 letter words containing nw
5 letter words containing nw
- conwy — a market town and resort in N Wales, in Conwy county borough on the estuary of the River Conwy: medieval town walls, 13th-century castle. Pop: 3847 (2001)
- inwit — (archaic) Inward knowledge or understanding.
- nwnet — NorthWestNet
- rnwmp — Royal Northwest Mounted Police: a former name for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- sanwu — South African National Workers Union
6 letter words containing nw
- annwfn — the other world; the land of fairies.
- conway — Thomas, 1735–1800? Irish soldier of fortune in America and India.
- enwall — to wall in; enclose
- enwind — (transitive) To wind about; to encircle.
- enwomb — (poetic, archaic) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
7 letter words containing nw
8 letter words containing nw
- barnwood — aged and weathered boards, especially those salvaged from dismantled barns: The den was paneled in barnwood.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- cornwell — Patricia D(aniels). born 1956, US crime novelist; her novels, many of which feature the pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta, include Postmortem (1990), The Last Precinct (2000), and Isle of Dogs (2002)
- cornworm — a cornmoth larva
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
9 letter words containing nw
- brainwash — If you brainwash someone, you force them to believe something by continually telling them that it is true, and preventing them from thinking about it properly.
- brainwave — If you have a brainwave, you suddenly have a clever idea.
- brainwork — intellectual effort
- brainworm — a microscopic, parasitic roundworm that infests the brain of large hoofed animals, as deer.
- brownwood — a city in central Texas.
10 letter words containing nw
- barrenwort — a herbaceous European berberidaceous plant, Epimedium alpinum, having red-and-yellow star-shaped flowers
- buchenwald — a village in E central Germany, near Weimar; site of a Nazi concentration camp (1937–45)
- buttonwood — a North American plane tree, Platanus occidentalis
- chainwheel — a toothed wheel that meshes with a roller chain to transmit motion
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
11 letter words containing nw
- abandonware — computer software which is no longer sold or supported by its publisher
- chinwangtao — Qinhuangdao
- cottonwoods — Plural form of cottonwood.
- curtainwall — Storm shutters or other removable protection for all windows and doors in a residence or building against the effects of high winds, rain and flying objects during a hurricane. They can be made of a variety of materials such as aluminum panels, iron or even wood.
- downwelling — a downward current of surface water in the ocean, usually caused by differences in the density of seawater.
12 letter words containing nw
- antispinward — (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
- ballanwrasse — a slow-growing fish (Labrus bergylta) found in rocky waters
- brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
13 letter words containing nw
- betweenwhiles — betweentimes.
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- companionways — Plural form of companionway.
- screenwriting — writing film scripts
- unwarrantable — capable of being warranted.
14 letter words containing nw
- inward-looking — person
- unwatchfulness — the quality or state of being unwatchful
15 letter words containing nw
- nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
17 letter words containing nw
- downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- dyer-s--greenweed — woadwaxen.
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