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13-letter words containing d, r, o, w

  • downrightness — The personal quality of being straightforward and direct in one's manner.
  • downside risk — an estimate of the potential loss of value of an investment in a falling market
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • dressing down — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
  • dressing gown — a tailored robe worn for lounging or for grooming, applying makeup, etc.
  • dressing-down — a severe reprimand; scolding.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • drownproofing — a survival technique, for swimmers or nonswimmers, in which the body is allowed to float vertically in the water, with the head submerged, the lungs filled with air, and the arms and legs relaxed, the head being raised to breathe every ten seconds or so.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fighting word — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • for the world — If you say that you would not do something for the world, you are emphasizing that you definitely would not do it.
  • foreign-owned — owned by an individual who is resident in a different country or by a company whose headquarters are in a different country
  • foreknowledge — knowledge of something before it exists or happens; prescience: Did you have any foreknowledge of the scheme?
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • forge welding — the welding of pieces of hot metal with pressure or blows.
  • form of words — the type of words and phrases used
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • from the wood — (of a beverage) from a wooden container rather than a metal or glass one
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • golden shower — a tree, Cassia fistula, of the legume family, native to India, having long, drooping clusters of yellow flowers.
  • grass widower — a man who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from his wife.
  • groundworkers — Plural form of groundworker.
  • gunpowder tea — an explosive mixture, as of potassium nitrate, sulfur, and charcoal, used in shells and cartridges, in fireworks, for blasting, etc.
  • hardware shop — a shop that sells metal tools and implements and mechanical equipment and components, etc
  • head of water — a quantity of water
  • heading sword — a sword used for beheading.
  • hedge sparrow — the dunnock.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • hollow-ground — ground so as to produce a concave surface or surfaces behind a cutting edge: the hollow-ground blade of an ice skate.
  • hunting sword — a short, light saber of the 18th century, having a straight or slightly curved blade.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • jimmy woodser — a man who drinks by himself
  • landownership — an owner or proprietor of land.
  • laundry-woman — laundress.
  • law and order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
  • law-and-order — strict control of crime and repression of violence, sometimes involving the possible restriction of civil rights.
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