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16-letter words containing o, r, w

  • 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.
  • tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
  • tomorrow evening — on the evening of the day after today
  • torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
  • 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-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • two-body problem — the problem of calculating the motions of two bodies in space moving solely under the influence of their mutual gravitational attraction.
  • two-party system — a political system consisting chiefly of two major parties, more or less equal in strength.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.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
  • utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
  • vegetable marrow — any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
  • 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
  • walk a tightrope — be in a precarious position
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • war of secession — American Civil War.
  • warminster broom — a European shrub, Cytisus praecox, of the legume family, having yellowish-white or yellow, pealike flowers.
  • washington thorn — a dense tree, Crataegus phaenopyrum, of the rose family, native to the eastern coast of the U.S., having triangular leaves, small clusters of white flowers, and clusters of bright red fruit.
  • waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.
  • watson-wentworth — Charles, 2nd Marquis of Rockingham [rok-ing-uh m] /ˈrɒk ɪŋ əm/ (Show IPA), 1730–82, British statesman: prime minister 1765–66, 1782.
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
  • way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
  • weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weather forecast — meteorological prediction
  • well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • well-ordered set — a totally ordered set in which every nonempty subset has a smallest element with the property that there is no element in the subset less than this smallest element.
  • well-recommended — to present as worthy of confidence, acceptance, use, etc.; commend; mention favorably: to recommend an applicant for a job; to recommend a book.
  • well-upholstered — (of a person) fat
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
  • wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
  • wheelbarrow race — a race in which one member of each team of two walks on his or her hands while the legs are held up by the partner.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • white-eyed vireo — a vireo, Vireo griseus, of eastern North America, having olive, yellow, and white plumage, a yellow ring around each eye, and white irises.
  • white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
  • wide of the mark — If something such as a claim or estimate is wide of the mark, it is incorrect or inaccurate.
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