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12-letter words containing n, o, w

  • crown cutter — a hollow, thin-walled cylinder having teeth formed radially on the end and used for cutting round holes out of thin, flat stock.
  • crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
  • crown jewels — the jewellery, including the regalia, used by a sovereign on a state occasion
  • crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
  • crown office — (in England) an office of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court that is responsible for administration and where actions are entered for trial
  • crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
  • crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
  • crowned head — a monarch
  • dak bungalow — (in India, formerly) a house where travellers on a dak route could be accommodated
  • dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
  • darning wool — wool used for darning
  • dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • deflowerment — The loss of a girl or woman's virginity.
  • devon minnow — a spinning lure intended to imitate the swimming motion of a minnow
  • disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
  • disendowment — The act of depriving of an endowment or endowments.
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
  • doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • down and out — downward; going or directed downward: the down escalator.
  • down payment — an initial amount paid at the time of purchase, in installment buying, time sales, etc.
  • down-and-out — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • down-at-heel — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • down-hearted — dejected; depressed; discouraged.
  • downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
  • downloadable — Capable of being downloaded.
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • downshifting — to shift an automotive transmission or vehicle into a lower gear.
  • downwellings — Plural form of downwelling.
  • downy mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
  • drawing room — a formal reception room, especially in an apartment or private house.
  • dumbing down — the act or process of making something less intellectually demanding; a pejorative use
  • dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
  • easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
  • ebb and flow — tidal movement
  • englishwoman — adult female from England
  • evening gown — a special dress, usually a long one, that a woman wears to a formal occasion in the evening
  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • fall down on — to fail or be unsuccessful in (a job, etc.)
  • fashion show — a show in which models display clothes to prospective buyers
  • fast-flowing — water: rapid
  • fast-growing — growing very quickly
  • fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
  • fennelflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nigella, of the buttercup family, especially N. sativa, the seeds of which are used, especially in the East, as a condiment and medicine.
  • fingerflower — purple foxglove.
  • fishing worm — an earthworm.
  • flooring saw — a saw having a curved edge.
  • flow control — (communications, protocol)   The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
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