16-letter words containing i, w
- african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
- air-raid warning — an alarm that sounds to warn people when an air raid is expected
- alligator wrench — a wrench having a V -shaped pair of serrated jaws set at right angles to the shank for turning cylindrical or irregularly shaped parts.
- american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
- ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
- artificial crown — the enamel-covered part of a tooth above the gum
- as far as i know — You can use far in expressions like 'as far as I know' and 'so far as I remember' to indicate that you are not absolutely sure of the statement you are about to make or have just made, and you may be wrong.
- as is one's wont — If someone does a particular thing as is their wont, they do that thing often or regularly.
- asalam-wa-leikum — a salutation used in India
- atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
- australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
- backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
- bargaining power — the ability of a person, group, or organization to exert influence over another party in a negotiation in order to achieve a deal which is favourable to themselves
- baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
- beneficial owner — a person entitled to receive the profits or proceeds of property
- birthwort family — the plant family Aristolochiaceae, typified by mostly tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants, having alternate, heart-shaped leaves and flowers lacking true petals but having three petallike sepals, and including the birthwort, Dutchman's-pipe, and wild ginger.
- bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
- blow one's lines — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- blow the whistle — to inform (on)
- blue-winged teal — a small North American duck (Anas discors) found on ponds and rivers
- boatswain's mate — a job classification in the US navy
- boatswain's pipe — a whistle used formerly to give orders on board ship
- bohemian waxwing — any of several songbirds of the family Bombycillidae, having a showy crest and certain feathers tipped with a red, waxy material, as Bombycilla garrulus (Bohemian waxwing) of the Northern Hemisphere.
- bound up in/with — If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
- boutique brewery — microbrewery.
- brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
- break faith with — If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
- call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
- cancellation law — a mathematical rule pertaining to certain algebraic structures, as an integral domain or a field, that allows cancellation of a nonzero common factor of two equivalent quantities.
- catchwater drain — a channel cut along the edge of high ground to catch surface water from it and divert it away from low-lying ground
- catherine howard — Catherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
- childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
- chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
- chinese whispers — a game in which a message is passed on, in a whisper, by each of a number of people, so that the final version of the message is often radically changed from the original
- chinese windlass — differential windlass
- chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
- chinese wood oil — tung oil.
- chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
- circuit switched — circuit switching
- clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
- cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
- combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
- conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
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