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17-letter words containing a, d, m, w

  • acme screw thread — a type of screw thread having inclined flat flanks and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools
  • american woodbine — a North American plant, related to the honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium
  • american wormseed — a plant with seeds used in medicine to treat worm infestation, Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • andrew fluegelman — (person)   A successful attorney, editor of PC World Magazine, and author of the MS-DOS communications program PC-TALK III, written in 1982. He once owned the trademark "freeware" but it wasn't enforced after his disappearance. In 1985, Fluegelman was diagnosed with cancer. He was last seen a week later, on 1985-07-06, when he left his Marin County home to go to his office in Tiburon. He called his wife later that day and has not been heard from since. His car was found at Vista Point on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • archimedes' screw — an ancient type of water-lifting device making use of a spiral passage in an inclined cylinder. The water is raised when the spiral is rotated
  • baden-wurttemberg — a state of SW Germany. Capital: Stuttgart. Pop: 53 938 (2003 est). Area: 35 742 sq km (13 800 sq miles)
  • bone marrow donor — a person who donates bone marrow
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • data flow diagram — (programming)   A graphical notation used to describe how data flows between processes in a system. Data flow diagrams are an important tool of most structured analysis techniques.
  • downward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • edward the martyr — Saint. ?963–978 ad, king of England (975–78), son of Edgar: murdered. Feast day: March 18
  • frederick william — 1795–1861, king of Prussia 1840–61 (brother of William I of Prussia).
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • newfoundland time — a form of civil time observed on the island of Newfoundland, one and one-half hours later than Eastern time and a half hour later than Atlantic time.
  • old-man-and-woman — houseleek (def 1).
  • one-time password — (security)   (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
  • tanenbaum, andrew — Andrew Tanenbaum
  • thermal underwear — underwear designed to retain body heat in cold temperatures.
  • tilt at windmills — to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
  • twelfth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1804, providing for election of the president and vice president by the electoral college: should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives (one vote per state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president.
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • well-accommodated — to do a kindness or a favor to; oblige: to accommodate a friend by helping him move to a new apartment.
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
  • well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • withdrawal method — a method of contraception in which the man withdraws his penis from the woman's vagina before ejaculation
  • wood meadow grass — a coarse, spreading grass, Poa nemoralis, of Eurasia, having flowers in long, narrow clusters.

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