12-letter words containing d, o, w, p
- baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
- 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.
- fellowshiped — Simple past tense and past participle of fellowship.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- forward pass — a pass in which the ball is thrown in the direction of advance toward the opponent's goal.
- forward post — the position held by a soldier on the forward line
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- fowl typhoid — a septicemic disease of fowl, especially chickens, caused by the bacterium Salmonella gallinarum and marked by fever, loss of appetite, thirst, anemic pallor of the skin of the head, and prostration.
- full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
- giant powder — dynamite composed of nitroglycerin and kieselguhr.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- high-powered — extremely energetic, dynamic, and capable: high-powered executives.
- horsewhipped — Simple past tense and past participle of horsewhip.
- jaw-dropping — Something that is jaw-dropping is extremely surprising, impressive, or shocking.
- joe-pye weed — Also called purple boneset. a tall composite weed, Eupatorium purpureum, of North America, having clusters of pinkish or purple flowers.
- low-spirited — depressed; dejected: He is feeling rather low-spirited today.
- lower depths — a play (1902) by Maxim Gorki.
- meadow pipit — a common European songbird, Anthus pratensis, with a pale brown speckled plumage: family Motacillidae (pipits and wagtails)
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- overflow pdl — (jargon) The place where you put things when your pdl is full. If you don't have one and too many things get pushed, you forget something. The overflow pdl for a person's memory might be a memo pad. This usage inspired the following doggerel:
- packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- pillow sword — a straight sword of the 17th century.
- piltdown man — a hypothetical early modern human, assigned to the genus Eoanthropus, whose existence was inferred from skull fragments that were allegedly found at Piltdown, England, in 1912 but were exposed as fraudulent through chemical analysis in 1953.
- polar wander — the movement of the earth's magnetic poles with respect to the geographic poles
- postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
- powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powder paper — Pharmacology. charta (def 2).
- power window — Power windows are windows in a vehicle which are raised or lowered by an electric motor operated by a button or switch.
- power-driven — powered by an electric motor
- powerbuilder — (tool, database) A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
- printed word — The printed word is the same as written word.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- push forward — keep advancing
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
- road sweeper — a person who sweeps roads
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