14-letter words containing d, i, w
- dogwood family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- 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.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- 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 straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
- drinking water — water that is safe to drink
- drop-down list — pull-down list
- dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- 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.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
- fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
- following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
- fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- get with child — to make pregnant
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
- go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- golden wedding — the fiftieth anniversary of a wedding.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- 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.
- gull-wing door — a car door that opens upwards
- hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- 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.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- highs and lows — If you refer to the highs and lows of someone's life or career, you are referring to both the successful or happy times, and the unsuccessful or bad times.
- hiram woodruff — Hiram, 1817–67, Canadian driver, trainer, and breeder of harness-racing horses.