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18-letter words containing d, e, w, o

  • have words with sb — If one person has words with another, or if two or more people have words, they have a serious discussion or argument, especially because one has complained about the other's behaviour.
  • have/be to do with — If you say that one thing has something to do with or is something to do with another thing, you mean that the two things are connected or that the first thing is about the second thing.
  • hearts and flowers — maudlin sentimentality: The play is a period piece, full of innocence abused and hearts and flowers.
  • hot-water cylinder — a vertical cylindrical tank for storing hot water, esp an insulated one made of copper used in a domestic hot-water system
  • how the wind blows — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
  • i would be obliged — expressions used to tell someone in a polite but firm way that one wants them to do something
  • in accordance with — conforming to
  • in one's own words — If you say something in your own words, you express it in your own way, without copying or repeating someone else's description.
  • keyword in context — (algorithm, information science)   (KWIC) A document search method that creates indexes of document text or titles. Each keyword is stored in the resulting index along with some surrounding text, usually the word or phrase that precedes or follows the keyword in the text or title.
  • long hundredweight — a hundredweight of 112 pounds (50.8 kg), the usual hundredweight in Great Britain, but now rare in the U.S.
  • low blood pressure — hypotension.
  • lyophilized powder — Lyophilized powder is a freeze-dried powder.
  • medicine bow range — a range of the Rocky Mountains, in Wyoming and Colorado. Highest peak, Medicine Bow Peak, 12,014 feet (3662 meters).
  • microwave detector — a device for recording the speed of a motorist
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • nailed to the wall — [like a trophy] Said of a bug finally eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
  • neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
  • network byte order — (networking)   The order in which the bytes of a multi-byte number are transmitted on a network - most significant byte first (as in "big-endian" storage). This may or may not match the order in which numbers are normally stored in memory for a particular processor.
  • network redirector — (networking)   An operating system driver that sends data to and receives data from a remote device. A network redirector often provides mechanisms to locate, open, read, write, and delete files and submit print jobs. It also makes available application services such as named pipes and mailslots. When an application needs to send or receive data from a remote device, it sends a call to the redirector. The redirector provides the functionality of the Application layer and Presentation layer of the OSI model. In Microsoft Networking, the network redirectors are implemented as installable file systems (IFS).
  • new forest disease — an infectious eye disease causing acute eye pain in cattle
  • new zealand on air — the operational name for the New Zealand Broadcasting Commission
  • new zealand pigeon — a large fruit-eating native pigeon, Hemiphagia novaeseelandiae, of forest areas
  • norwegian elkhound — one of a breed of dogs having a short, compact body, short, pointed ears, and a thick, gray coat, raised originally in Norway for hunting elk and other game.
  • not breathe a word — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • paint the town red — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • percussion welding — a form of resistance welding in which the required pressure is provided by a hammerlike blow.
  • peter and the wolf — a composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936. It is a children's story with both music and text, spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra
  • pileolated warbler — either of two western subspecies of Wilson's warbler.
  • plate-glass window — a window that has glass which has been formed by rolling
  • pour cold water on — If someone pours cold water on a plan or idea, they criticize it so much that people lose their enthusiasm for it.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • ready when you are — If you say to someone 'Ready when you are', you are telling them that you are now ready to do something and that as soon as they are ready, you will do it.
  • rhode island white — one of a dual-purpose American breed of chickens having white feathers and a rose comb.
  • row address strobe — (storage)   (RAS) An input to a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) to indicate that the row address lines are valid.
  • rub shoulders with — to mix with socially or associate with
  • sheltered workshop — a place of employment for persons with disabilities where their rights are protected and their needs are met.
  • short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spread one's wings — to make full use of one's abilities
  • st. andrew's cross — a low evergreen shrub, Ascyrum hypericoides, native to temperate and subtropical America, having flowers in clusters of three: often cultivated.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • sunflower seed oil — the oil extracted from sunflower seeds, used as a salad oil, in the manufacture of margarine, etc
  • swollen-headedness — the quality of being conceited
  • take a dim view of — not bright; obscure from lack of light or emitted light: a dim room; a dim flashlight.
  • telford and wrekin — a unitary authority in W Central England, in Shropshire. Pop: 160 300 (2003 est). Area: 289 sq km (112 sq miles)
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • think the world of — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
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