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16-letter words containing a, r, d, w

  • african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
  • air-raid warning — an alarm that sounds to warn people when an air raid is expected
  • andrew tanenbaum — (person)   Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Tanenbaum is famous for his work and books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the International Standards Organisation, Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) network model. See Amoeba, Mac-1, Mic-1, Mic-2, Micro Assembly Language, MINIX, MicroProgramming Language, standard.
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • around the world — in many countries
  • at daggers drawn — If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  • backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • beat to the draw — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in drawing one's weapon
  • black woodpecker — a large woodpecker, Dryocopus martius, found in parts of Eurasia and Africa
  • bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
  • blue dawn-flower — a tropical American vine, Ipomoea acuminata, of the morning glory family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers that turn from blue to pink.
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
  • break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
  • brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
  • capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
  • carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
  • catchwater drain — a channel cut along the edge of high ground to catch surface water from it and divert it away from low-lying ground
  • catherine howardCatherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
  • crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
  • dual carriageway — divided highway.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
  • elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
  • farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight

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