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15-letter words containing a, w, d, l

  • hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
  • identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
  • judicial review — the power of a court to adjudicate the constitutionality of the laws of a government or the acts of a government official.
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • lady's bedstraw — a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, with clusters of small yellow flowers
  • lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leeward islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean, in the N Lesser Antilles between Puerto Rico and Martinique
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
  • lower east side — a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
  • mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • nuclear warhead — a warhead containing a fission or fusion bomb.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • sword swallower — performer who puts swords in throat
  • sword-swallower — a performer who simulates the swallowing of swords
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