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14-letter words containing i, n, w

  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • conjoined twin — Conjoined twins are twins who are born with their bodies joined.
  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • cremnitz white — lead white.
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
  • crowning glory — the greatest achievement
  • cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • daffadowndilly — a daffodil
  • daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
  • diamond willow — wood that may come from any species of willow and has a diamond pattern in the grain, used for making walking sticks, table lamps, etc
  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • display window — shop window displaying goods
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • 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.
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • drop-down list — pull-down list
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
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