16-letter words containing n, w, o, r
- developing world — Third World: poor countries
- dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
- drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
- ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
- emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
- emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- fool around with — have casual sex
- forswear oneself — to swear falsely; perjure oneself
- fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
- forward contract — a contract to buy or sell an asset at a point in the future at a previously agreed price
- forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
- hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
- hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
- here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
- huyton-with-roby — an urban district in Merseyside, NW England, E of Liverpool.
- if it wasn't for — If you talk about what would happen if it wasn't for someone or something, you mean that they are the only thing that is preventing it from happening.
- immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
- in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
- in so many words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.