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

  • downers grove — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • exploded view — a drawing or photograph of a complicated mechanism that shows the individual parts separately, usually indicating their relative positions
  • fellowshipped — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field of view — field (def 13).
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • foxtail wedge — a wedge in the split end of a tenon, bolt, or the like, for spreading and securing it when driven into a blind mortise or hole.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • giant hogweed — a tall plant, Heracleum mantegazzianum, of the parsley family, native to Russia and now naturalized in the U.S., having very large leaves and broad, white flower heads somewhat resembling Queen Anne's lace: can cause an allergic rash when touched by susceptible persons.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • godwin-austen — Also called Godwin Austen [god-win aw-stin] /ˈgɒd wɪn ˈɔ stɪn/ (Show IPA), Dapsang [duh p-suhng] /dəpˈsʌŋ/ (Show IPA). a mountain in N Kashmir, in the Karakoram range: second highest peak in the world. 28,250 feet (8611 meters).
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • golden wattle — a broad-leaved, Australian acacia, Acacia pycnantha, of the legume family, having short clusters of yellow flowers and yielding tanbark and a useful gum.
  • golden yellow — of yellow with a tinge of gold
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • head of water — a quantity of water
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hollywood bed — a bed consisting of a metal frame, box spring, mattress, and headboard, but lacking a footboard.
  • homestead law — any law exempting homesteads from seizure or sale for debt.
  • indian yellow — Also called purree, snowshoe. an orange-yellow color.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • into the wind — against the wind or upwind
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