16-letter words containing d, r, o, w, s
- social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
- speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
- strawberry blond — reddish blond.
- swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
- this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
- turn upside down — invert
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
- unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
- unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
- weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
- well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- well-ordered set — a totally ordered set in which every nonempty subset has a smallest element with the property that there is no element in the subset less than this smallest element.
- well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
- whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
- white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
- whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
- wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
- windfall profits — Windfall profits are excessive profits with a non-business cause such as a natural disaster.
- windows registry — (operating system) The database used by Microsoft Windows 95 and later to store all sorts of configuration information such as which program should be used to open a .doc file, DLL registration information, application-specific settings and much more. The Registry is stored in .dat files, one in the user's profile containing their per-user settings and one in the Windows directory containing settings that are global to all users. These are loaded into memory at login. The loaded data appears as a tree with five main branches: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, HKEY_CURRENT_USER, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, HKEY_USERS, HKEY_CURRENT_CONFIG. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT defines file types and actions, HKEY_CURRENT_USER is an alias for one of the sub-trees of HKEY_USERS and contains user settings that override the global defaults in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The branches of the tree are called "keys" and are identified by paths like HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion. Any node in the tree can have zero or more "values" which are actually bindings of a name and a value, e.g. "Logon User Name" = "Denis". The value can be of type string, binary, dword (long integer), multi-string value or expandable string value. Windows includes a Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
- windsor, duke of — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- wisconsin rapids — a city in central Wisconsin.
- word association — stimulation of an associative pattern by a word.
- word for windows — (text, tool, product) The version of Microsoft Word which runs under Microsoft Windows. Version 6.0.
- world exposition — world's fair.
- world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
- world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.