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14-letter words containing a, w, r, y

  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • abraham cowleyAbraham, 1618–67, English poet.
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • aerial railway — a system of railway cars that move on cables
  • aerial tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • 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)
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • brewer's yeast — a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in brewing
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fowl paralysis — Marek's disease.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
  • grow away from — lose attachment
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hammer away at — persist
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
  • hyperawareness — The state of being hyperaware, or extremely sensitive to stimuli.
  • laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • leland haywardLeland, 1902–71, U.S. theatrical producer.
  • marine railway — a railway having a rolling cradle for hauling ships out of water onto land and returning them.
  • maternity ward — hospital room for new mothers
  • melton mowbray — a town in central England, in Leicestershire: pork pies and Stilton cheese. Pop: 25 554 (2001)
  • myrtle warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
  • new jersey tea — a North American shrub, Ceanothus americanus, of the buckthorn family, the leaves of which were used as a substitute for tea during the American Revolution.
  • new model army — the army established in 1645 during the Civil War by the English parliamentarians, which exercised considerable political power under Cromwell
  • new year's day — January 1, celebrated as a holiday in many countries.
  • new year's eve — the night of December 31, often celebrated with merrymaking to usher in the new year at midnight.

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