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16-letter words containing n, o, w

  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • short sweetening — sugar.
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • show one's heels — to run away
  • show one's teeth — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • speed networking — the practice of trying to form business connections and contacts through meetings at which individuals are given the opportunity to have several conversations of limited duration with strangers
  • spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • swiss stone pine — a five-needled pine tree, Pinus cembra,, found especially in mountain regions of Central Europe and yielding edible seeds
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the written word — writing rather than speaking
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • throw oneself at — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • throw oneself on — to rely entirely upon
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • to go a long way — If you say that something goes a long way towards doing a particular thing, you mean that it is an important factor in achieving that thing.
  • to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
  • to waste no time — If you waste no time in doing something, you take the opportunity to do it immediately or quickly.
  • to wine and dine — If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
  • tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • unknown quantity — mathematics: amount not known
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • virginia cowslip — a perennial woodland plant (Mertensia virginica) of the borage family, native to E North America and having clusters of blue or purple, bell-shaped flowers
  • voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • war of secession — American Civil War.
  • warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
  • wash one's hands — to go to the lavatory
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