16-letter words containing d, i, w
- african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
- air-raid warning — an alarm that sounds to warn people when an air raid is expected
- atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
- backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
- baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
- bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
- blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- blue-winged teal — a small North American duck (Anas discors) found on ponds and rivers
- bound up in/with — If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
- brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
- call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
- 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.
- childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
- chinese windlass — differential windlass
- chinese wood oil — tung oil.
- circuit switched — circuit switching
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
- darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
- 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
- de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
- dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
- distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
- do business with — trade or deal with
- 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.
- dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- 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
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
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