11-letter words containing n, o, w
- oversweeten — to sweeten too much
- overswollen — too swollen
- overweening — presumptuously conceited, overconfident, or proud: a brash, insolent, overweening fellow.
- overwritten — to write in too elaborate, burdensome, diffuse, or prolix a style: He overwrites his essays to the point of absurdity.
- own up (to) — to confess (to)
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- oxford-down — 1st Earl of, Harley, Robert.
- oysterwoman — a woman who gathers, cultivates, or sells oysters.
- paddy wagon — Informal. patrol wagon.
- patrolwoman — a policewoman who is assigned to patrol a specific district, route, etc.
- pawnbroking — the business of a pawnbroker.
- peanut worm — any small, unsegmented, marine worm of the phylum Sipuncula, that when disturbed retracts its anterior portion into the body, giving the appearance of a peanut seed.
- personpower — the power or influence of a person
- pigeon hawk — merlin.
- plantswoman — a nurserywoman.
- policewoman — a female member of a police force or body.
- policy wonk — a person who studies or makes political policies, esp one who has a strong enthusiasm for technical details
- policyowner — policyholder.
- polonnaruwa — a town in E central Sri Lanka: Buddhist ruins.
- postweaning — of, relating to, or occurring in the period following weaning
- powder burn — a skin burn caused by exploding gunpowder.
- powder down — modified down feathers that continually crumble at the tips, producing a fine powder that forms a bloom on the plumage of certain birds, as pigeons and herons.
- powder horn — a powder flask made from the horn of a cow or ox.
- powder snow — powder1 (def 3).
- power brand — a brand of product that is a household name associated with a successful company
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- power plant — a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
- power point — electrical socket
- power train — a train of gears and shafting transmitting power from an engine, motor, etc., to a mechanism being driven.
- powerdomain — (theory) The powerdomain of a domain D is a domain containing some of the subsets of D. Due to the asymmetry condition in the definition of a partial order (and therefore of a domain) the powerdomain cannot contain all the subsets of D. This is because there may be different sets X and Y such that X <= Y and Y <= X which, by the asymmetry condition would have to be considered equal. There are at least three possible orderings of the subsets of a powerdomain: Egli-Milner: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y and for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The other domain always contains a related element"). Hoare or Partial Correctness or Safety: X <= Y iff for all x in X, exists y in Y: x <= y ("The bigger domain always contains a bigger element"). Smyth or Total Correctness or Liveness: X <= Y iff for all y in Y, exists x in X: x <= y ("The smaller domain always contains a smaller element"). If a powerdomain represents the result of an abstract interpretation in which a bigger value is a safe approximation to a smaller value then the Hoare powerdomain is appropriate because the safe approximation Y to the powerdomain X contains a safe approximation to each point in X. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
- pro-western — lying toward or situated in the west: our company's western office.
- put down as — If you put someone or something down as a particular type of person or thing, you consider that they are that thing.
- put down to — ascribe to
- rain shadow — a region in the lee of mountains that receives less rainfall than the region windward of the mountains.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- rainbowlike — resembling a rainbow
- random walk — Statistics. the path taken by a point or quantity that moves in steps, where the direction of each step is determined randomly.
- rawoop-snap — (language) An early system on the IBM 1130.
- rear window — the window at the back of a motor vehicle
- reason with — If you try to reason with someone, you try to persuade them to do or accept something by using sensible arguments.
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- reflowering — an occurrence of flowering again
- repairwoman — a woman whose occupation is the making of repairs, readjustments, etc.
- resort town — a holiday town
- ribbon worm — any of various slender, unsegmented marine worms of the phylum Nemertea, being able to contract and stretch to an extreme extent.
- robert owen — Sir Richard, 1804–92, English zoologist and anatomist.
- rose window — a circular window decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.
- rotary wing — an airfoil that rotates about an approximately vertical axis, as that supporting a helicopter or autogiro in flight.
- round tower — a freestanding circular stone belfry built in Ireland from the 10th century beside a monastery and used as a place of refuge