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15-letter words containing d, o, w, n

  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
  • venetian window — Palladian window.
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • waddesdon manor — a mansion near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire: built (1880–89) in the French style for the Rothschild family: noted for its furnishings and collections of porcelain and paintings
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • well turned out — smartly dressed
  • well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
  • well-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • well-documented — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • well-formedness — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
  • west des moines — a city in S central Iowa, near Des Moines.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
  • widow's pension — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment made to a widow
  • wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • window envelope — an envelope with a transparent opening through which the address on the enclosure may be read.
  • window shopping — browsing store displays
  • window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • windows sockets — (networking, standard)   (Winsock) A specification for Microsoft Windows network software, describing how applications can access network services, especially TCP/IP. Winsock is intended to provide a single API to which application developers should program and to which multiple network software vendors should conform. For any particular version of Microsoft Windows, it defines a binary interface (ABI) such that an application written to the Windows Sockets API can work with a conformant protocol implementation from any network software vendor. Winsock was conceived at Fall Interop '91 during a Birds of a Feather session. Windows Sockets is supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Win32s, Windows 95 and Windows NT. It will support protocols other than TCP/IP. Under Windows NT, Microsoft will provide Windows Sockets support over TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. DEC will be implementing DECNet. Windows NT will include mechanisms for multiple protocol support in Windows Sockets, both 32-bit and 16 bit. Mark Towfiq said, "The next rev. of Winsock will not be until toward the end of 1993. We need 1.1 of the API to become firmly settled and implemented first." Currently NetManage (NEWT), Distinct, FTP and Frontier are shipping Winsock TCP/IP stacks, as is Microsoft (Windows NT and TCP/IP for WFW), Beame & Whiteside Software (v1.1 compliant), and Sun PC-NFS. Windows 95 has "dial-up networking" which supports Winsock and TCP/IP. winsock.dll is available from some TCP/IP stack vendors. Novell has one in beta for their Lan Workplace for DOS. Peter Tattam <[email protected]> is alpha-testing a shareware Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip. and ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winpkt.com.
  • winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • women's studies — a program of studies concentrating on the role of women in history, learning, and culture.
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wondermongering — the promising of miracles
  • wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
  • word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
  • work/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
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