12-letter words containing d, o, w
- mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
- multitowered — comprising several towers
- narrowminded — Alternative spelling of narrow-minded.
- naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
- need-to-know — done or given only when it is essential that someone knows something
- needleworker — One who carries out needlework.
- nether world — the infernal regions; hell.
- netherworlds — Plural form of netherworld.
- network card — network interface controller
- network node — (networking) (node) An addressable device attached to a computer network. If the node is a computer it is more often called a "host".
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- newfoundland — a large island in E Canada. 42,734 sq. mi. (110,680 sq. km).
- newspaperdom — The realm or sphere of newspaper publishing or journalism.
- noahide laws — the seven laws given to Noah after the Flood, which decree the establishment of a fair system of justice in society, and prohibit idolatry, blasphemy, murder, adultery and incest, robbery, and the eating of flesh taken from a living animal
- nonlandowner — a person who does not own any land; a tenant
- now and then — occasionally
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- off broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- off-broadway — experimental or avant-garde drama produced in New York City, in small theaters, halls, churches, etc.
- old-womanish — Sometimes Offensive. having characteristics considered typical of an old woman, as excessive fussiness or timidity.
- onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
- opera window — a narrow, fixed window on each side of the rear passenger compartment of an automobile.
- oriel window — a bay window, esp one that is supported by one or more brackets or corbels
- orthodox jew — a Jew who adheres faithfully to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism as evidenced chiefly by a devotion to and study of the Torah, daily synagogue attendance if possible, and strict observance of the Sabbath, religious festivals, holy days, and the dietary laws.
- otherworldly — of, relating to, or devoted to another world, as the world of imagination or the world to come.
- out and away — away from, or not in, the normal or usual place, position, state, etc.: out of alphabetical order; to go out to dinner.
- outside work — work done off the premises of a business
- overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- 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:
- overweighted — weighing too much or more than is considered normal, proper, etc.: overweight luggage; an overweight patient; two letters that may be overweight.
- overwithhold — to withhold too much.
- owner-driver — a person who owns the vehicle he drives
- 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.