16-letter words containing d, o, w, n
- acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
- african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
- answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
- around the world — in many countries
- 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
- blue dawn-flower — a tropical American vine, Ipomoea acuminata, of the morning glory family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers that turn from blue to pink.
- bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
- 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.
- break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
- break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
- brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
- bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
- canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
- carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
- catherine howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
- century meltdown — Year 2000
- chinese wood oil — tung oil.
- common knowledge — something widely or generally known
- commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
- crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
- crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
- cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
- dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
- 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 morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
- declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
- 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.
- do business with — trade or deal with
- down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- 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.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
- drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- 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
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