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14-letter words containing g, r, w, t

  • a thing or two — If you say that a person knows a thing or two about something or could teach someone a thing or two about it, you mean that they know a lot about it or are good at it.
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
  • bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
  • bulgur (wheat) — wheat that has been cooked, dried, and coarsely ground: used to make tabbouleh or, sometimes, pilaf or couscous
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • get/go to work — If you get to work, go to work, or set to work on a job, task, or problem, you start doing it or dealing with it.
  • gewurztraminer — a type of white grape used in winemaking.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great firewall — a system that prevents access to websites deemed undesirable by the government of the People's Republic of China
  • great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
  • great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
  • great zimbabwe — Formerly Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia. a republic in S Africa: a former British colony and part of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; gained independence 1980. 150,330 sq. mi. (389,362 sq. km). Capital: Harare.
  • greater weever — either of two small, European, marine fishes of the genus Trachinus, T. draco (greater weever) or T. vipera (lesser weever) having highly poisonous dorsal spines.
  • greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
  • grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
  • growth hormone — any substance that stimulates or controls the growth of an organism, especially a species-specific hormone, as the human hormone somatotropin, secreted by the anterior pituitary gland. Abbreviation: GH.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
  • highway patrol — a state law-enforcement organization whose officers safeguard the highways.
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.

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