16-letter words containing d, e, r, w, n, t
- 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.
- 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.
- baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
- brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
- bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
- 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 howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
- century meltdown — Year 2000
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- 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
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
- indian wrestling — arm wrestling
- industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- man of the world — a man who is widely experienced in the ways of the world and people; an urbane, sophisticated man.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- middle westerner — the region of the United States bounded on the W by the Rocky Mountains, on the S by the Ohio River and the S extremities of Missouri and Kansas, and on the E, variously, by the Allegheny Mountains, the E border of Ohio, or the E border of Illinois.
- network database — (database) A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database (no explicit owner).
- network meltdown — (networking) (By analogy with catastrophic failure of a nuclear reactor) An event that causes saturation, or near saturation, of a network. Network meltdown usually results from illegal or misrouted packets (see Chernobyl packet) and typically lasts only a short time. It may also be caused by a hardware fault. It is the network equivalent of thrashing.
- network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
- nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
- no/little wonder — If you say 'no wonder', 'little wonder', or 'small wonder', you mean that something is not surprising.
- observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
- old-girl network — an association among women that is comparable to or modeled on an old-boy network.
- on the downgrade — waning in importance, popularity, health, etc
- otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
- portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
- projected window — a casement window in which the inner end of the sash slides along a track on the sill as the sash swings outward.
- rattlesnake weed — a hawkweed, Hieracium venosum, of eastern North America, whose leaves and root are thought to possess medicinal properties.
- redbank whiteoak — a city in S Tennessee.
- regent bowerbird — a bowerbird, Sericulus chrysocephalus, the males of which have deep black plumage with brilliant golden head, neck, and wing patches and build elaborate bowers.
- round the wrekin — the long way round
- secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
- shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
- speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
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