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17-letter words containing d, o, w

  • due course of law — the regular administration of the law, according to which no citizen may be denied his or her legal rights and all laws must conform to fundamental, accepted legal principles, as the right of the accused to confront his or her accusers.
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • ethernet meltdown — A network meltdown on Ethernet.
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • five-spice powder — a mixture of spices used especially in Chinese cooking, usually including cinnamon, cloves, fennel seed, pepper, and star anise.
  • flowering dogwood — a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia.
  • follow the hounds — to hunt a fox, etc. on horseback with hounds
  • follow the leader — a child's game in which players, one behind the other, follow a leader and must repeat or follow everything he or she does.
  • for all the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • fort leonard wood — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SW Missouri, SW of Rolla.
  • forward contracts — Forward contracts are agreements to buy something in the future for a price that has been agreed today.
  • forward quotation — the price quoted on a forward delivery.
  • four-letter words — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
  • four-rowed barley — a class of barley having, in each spike, six rows of grain, with two pairs of rows overlapping.
  • freight forwarder — a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
  • front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
  • general knowledge — commonly known facts
  • george whitefield — George, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • give to the world — to publish
  • go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
  • go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • have no words for — to be incapable of describing
  • hawking radiation — the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • i wouldn't say no — You use 'I wouldn't say no' to indicate that you would like something, especially something that has just been offered to you.
  • in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • microsoft windows — (operating system)   Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. The 1996 market share of operating systems was: DOS/Windows 70% Windows 95 15% Windows NT 2% Other 13% Versions include 1985 Windows 1, 1987 Windows 2, 1987 Windows/386, 1990 Windows 3.0, 1992 Windows 3.1, 1992 Windows for Workgroups 3.1, 1993 Windows 3.11, 1993 Windows for Workgroups 3.11, 1993 Windows NT 3.1, 1994 Windows NT 3.5, 1995 Windows 95, 199? Windows NT 4, 1998 Windows 98, Windows NT 5, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8.
  • mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
  • most well studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • neck of the woods — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
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