12-letter words containing d, o, w, n
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- down-and-out — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
- down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
- downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
- downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
- downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
- downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
- dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- fall down on — to fail or be unsuccessful in (a job, etc.)
- for a wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
- forward line — the soldiers at the forward most position in an army force
- gable window — a window in or under a gable.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- go down with — If you go down with an illness or a disease, you catch it.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- golden-brown — of brown with a golden tinge
- gondwanaland — a hypothetical landmass in the Southern Hemisphere that separated toward the end of the Paleozoic Era to form South America, Africa, Antarctica, and Australia.
- gordian worm — nematomorph.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
- groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
- half-drowned — to die under water or other liquid of suffocation.
- hand of writ — handwriting; penmanship.
- hand-me-down — an article of clothing passed on to another person after being used, outgrown, etc.: The younger children wore the hand-me-downs of the older ones.
- hard-working — industrious; zealous: a hardworking family man.
- henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry howard — Earl of (Henry Howard) 1517?–47, English poet.
- here and now — in this place; in this spot or locality (opposed to there): Put the pen here.
- high and low — having a great or considerable extent or reach upward or vertically; lofty; tall: a high wall.
- hollywoodian — a person who works for the motion-picture industry located in Hollywood, Calif.
- horned whiff — any of several flatfishes having both eyes on the left side of the head, of the genus Citharichthys, as C. cornutus (horned whiff) inhabiting Atlantic waters from New England to Brazil.
- hornswoggled — Simple past tense and past participle of hornswoggle.
- in the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
- in two minds — If you are in two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action. The expression of two minds is also used, especially in American English.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- jesse window — a church window having a representation of the tree of Jesse.
- knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
- knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
- knowledgable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
- knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
- laundrywoman — laundress.
- laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.