14-letter words containing a, d, o, w, n
- acknowledgedly — by general agreement, admittedly
- acknowledgment — An acknowledgment is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
- and/or whatnot — People sometimes say 'and whatnot' or 'or whatnot' after mentioning one or more things, to refer in a vague way to other things which are similar.
- andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
- andrew johnson — Andrew, 1808–75, seventeenth president of the U.S. 1865–69.
- andrew project — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
- andrew toolkit — (tool) (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
- as good as new — If you say that something or someone is as good as new, you mean that they are in a very good condition or state, especially after they have been damaged or ill.
- award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
- battered woman — See under battered woman syndrome.
- battered-women — the array of physical and psychological injuries exhibited by women (battered women or battered wives) who have been beaten repeatedly or otherwise abused by their partners or spouses.
- boatswain bird — tropic bird.
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- brown bullhead — a freshwater catfish, Ictalurus nebulosus, of eastern North America, having an olive to brown body with dark markings on the sides.
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
- china wood oil — tung oil
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- daffadowndilly — a daffodil
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- diamond willow — wood that may come from any species of willow and has a diamond pattern in the grain, used for making walking sticks, table lamps, etc
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
- drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
- dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- edward yourdon — (person) A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
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