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14-letter words containing d, i, g, e, r, w

  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
  • landing-waiter — landwaiter.
  • nice/good work — You can say to someone 'nice work' or 'good work' in order to thank or praise them for doing something well or quickly.
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • railway bridge — a bridge built to carry a railway over a road, river, etc
  • rainbow bridge — a natural stone bridge in S Utah: a national monument. 290 feet (88 meters) high; 275 feet (84 meters) span.
  • rude awakening — If you have a rude awakening, you are suddenly made aware of an unpleasant fact.
  • series winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in series
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • standing water — still water that has stagnated
  • trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
  • tunbridge ware — decorative wooden ware, including tables, trays, boxes, and ornamental objects, produced especially in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Tunbridge Wells, England, with mosaiclike marquetry sawed from square-sectioned wooden rods of different natural colors.
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • waiting period — a specified delay, required by law, between officially stating an intention and acting on it, as between securing a marriage license and getting married.
  • warning device — alarm or danger signal
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • water divining — the location of water with a divining rod
  • well-organized — affiliated in an organization, especially a union: organized dockworkers.
  • wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
  • wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
  • wind generator — an electric generator situated on a tower and driven by the force of wind on blades or a rotor.
  • winding number — the number of times a closed curve winds around a point not on the curve.
  • wine-producing — of or relating to a place where wine is produced
  • wing commander — British. an officer in the Royal Air Force equivalent in rank to a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force.
  • wire recording — a recording made on a wire recorder.
  • with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.

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