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14-letter words containing d, o, w

  • rainbow darter — a stout darter, Etheostoma caeruleum, inhabiting the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainages, the spawning male of which has the sides marked with oblique blue bars with red interspaces.
  • reach-me-downs — trousers
  • red sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • reserved power — a political power that a constitution reserves exclusively to the jurisdiction of a particular political authority.
  • residual power — power retained by a governmental authority after certain powers have been delegated to other authorities.
  • road allowance — land reserved by the government to be used for public roads
  • saffron powder — the dried stigmas of the saffron crushed into powder, used to flavour or colour food
  • sandalwood oil — extract of fragrant Asian wood
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • secondary wall — the innermost part of a plant cell wall, deposited after the wall has ceased to increase in surface area.
  • secondary wave — a transverse earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the second conspicuous wave to reach a seismograph.
  • self-knowledge — knowledge or understanding of oneself, one's character, abilities, motives, etc.
  • seward's folly — the purchase of Alaska in 1867, through the negotiations of Secretary of State W. H. Seward.
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • shittim (wood) — the wood of the shittah, used in making the ark of the covenant and parts of the Jewish tabernacle: Ex. 25:10, 13, 23, etc.
  • sit-down money — social security benefits
  • snow blindness — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • southeastwards — Also, southeastwards. toward the southeast.
  • southwestwards — Also, southwestwards. toward the southwest.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • spruce budworm — the larva of a common tortricid moth, Choristoneura fumiferana, that is a destructive pest primarily of spruce and balsam fir in the northern and northeastern U.S. and in Canada.
  • straw-coloured — If you describe something, especially hair, as straw-coloured, you mean that it is pale yellow.
  • strong forward — power forward
  • surajah dowlah — Siraj-ud-daula.
  • suwannee sound — a part of the Gulf of Mexico where the Suwannee river reaches the sea
  • swallow-tailed — having a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow, as various birds.
  • sweated labour — workers forced to work in poor conditions for low pay
  • sweet and sour — Sweet and sour is used to describe Chinese food that contains both a sweet flavour and something sharp or sour such as lemon or vinegar.
  • sweet woodruff — any of several plants belonging to the genus Asperula or Galium, of the madder family, as G. odoratum (sweet woodruff) a fragrant plant with small white flowers.
  • sweet wormwood — a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.
  • sweet-and-sour — cooked with sugar and vinegar or lemon juice and often other seasonings.
  • swollen-headed — conceited
  • the free world — the non-Communist countries collectively, esp those that are actively anti-Communist
  • the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
  • the real world — if you talk about the real world, you are referring to the world and life in general, in contrast to a particular person's own life, experience, and ideas, which may seem untypical and unrealistic
  • the wool trade — the business of buying and selling wool, formerly very important in Britain, Australia etc
  • the world over — If you say that something happens or exists the world over, you mean that it happens or exists in every part of the world.
  • to draw breath — If you do not have time to draw breath, you do not have time to have a break from what you are doing.
  • to sweat blood — If you say that someone sweats blood trying to do something, you are emphasizing that they try very hard to do it.
  • to win the day — If a particular person, group, or thing wins the day, they win a battle, struggle, or competition. If they lose the day, they are defeated.
  • to windward of — advantageously situated with respect to
  • top-down model — (programming)   A method for estimating the overall cost and effort of the proposed software project from global properties of the project. The total cost and schedule is partitioned into components for planning purposes.
  • transom window — a window divided by a transom.
  • twilight world — a situation of confusion or uncertainty, which seems to exist between two different states or categories
  • two-toed sloth — either of two sloths of the genus Choloepus, having two claws on the forelimbs and three on the hind limbs, including C. didactylus and C. hoffmanni.
  • unacknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • uncrowned king — a man or woman of high status among a certain group
  • upwards of sth — A quantity that is upwards of a particular number is more than that number.
  • url forwarding — URL redirection
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