18-letter words containing o, w
- (in) the worst way — very much; greatly
- a farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
- abominable snowman — a large legendary manlike or apelike creature, alleged to inhabit the Himalayan Mountains
- accretionary wedge — a body of deformed sediments, wedge-shaped in two dimensions or prism-shaped in three dimensions, that has been scraped off the surface of the oceanic lithosphere as it moves downwards beneath a continent or island arc. The sediments are added to the continental edge
- african yellowwood — a tree, Podocarpus elongatus, of tropical Africa and the mountains of southern Africa, having globe-shaped fruit, grown as an ornamental.
- ailanthus silkworm — a green silkworm, Samia walkeri, introduced into the U.S. from China, that feeds on the leaves of the ailanthus.
- an overgrown child — an adult whose behaviour is characteristic of a child
- antivirus software — (tool) Programs to detect and remove computer viruses. The simplest kind scans executable files and boot blocks for a list of known viruses. Others are constantly active, attempting to detect the actions of general classes of viruses. antivirus software should always include a regular update service allowing it to keep up with the latest viruses as they are released.
- arrogance of power — presumption on the part of a nation that its power gives it the right to intervene in the affairs of less powerful nations.
- at one's wit's end — the last part or extremity, lengthwise, of anything that is longer than it is wide or broad: the end of a street; the end of a rope.
- at one's wits' end — at a loss to know how to proceed
- at someone's elbow — very close to someone; easy to reach
- atmospheric window — wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that can be transmitted through the earth's atmosphere. Atmospheric windows occur in the visible, infrared, and radio regions of the spectrum
- avoirdupois weight — a British and American system of weights based on a pound of 16 ounces
- awnless bromegrass — Hungarian bromegrass.
- bach flower remedy — an alternative medicine consisting of a distillation from various flowers, designed to counteract negative states of mind and restore emotional balance
- back/down to earth — If you come down to earth or back to earth, you have to face the reality of everyday life after a period of great excitement.
- bad news/good news — If you say that something is bad news, you mean that it will cause you trouble or problems. If you say that something is good news, you mean that it will be useful or helpful to you.
- ball-and-claw foot — a foot having the form of a bird's claw grasping a ball.
- barrow's goldeneye — See under goldeneye (def 1).
- be getting nowhere — If you say that you are getting nowhere, or getting nowhere fast, or that something is getting you nowhere, you mean that you are not achieving anything or having any success.
- before you know it — rapidly, soon
- bend over backward — to try to an unusual degree (to please, pacify, etc.)
- berkeley softworks — (company) The company that wrote Graffiti and a similar scheme for the Commodore 64 (made it very Macintosh-like) and the Commodore 128 (which could multitask).
- berwick-upon-tweed — a town in N England, in N Northumberland at the mouth of the Tweed: much involved in border disputes between England and Scotland between the 12th and 16th centuries; neutral territory 1551–1885. Pop: 12 870 (2001)
- between you and me — in the space separating (two points, objects, etc.): between New York and Chicago.
- biological warfare — the use of living organisms or their toxic products to induce death or incapacity in humans and animals and damage to plant crops, etc
- bitwise complement — The bitwise complement of a bit field is a bit field of the same length but with each zero changed to a one and vice versa. This is the same as the ones complement of a binary integer.
- blue-collar worker — a manual industrial worker
- bobo the webmonkey — (web) What B1FF was to BITNET users, Bobo the Webmonkey is to webmonkeys - the mythical prototype of incompetent web designers everywhere. In fact, Bobo may be what B1FF became when he grew up. Bobo knows about HTML only what he has learned from viewing the source of other people's Web pages. Bobo doesn't know what a MIME type is, even though someone gave him a hardcopy of the FOLDOC entry for it. Bobo may have used an HTML code validator http://validator.w3.org/ before, but isn't sure. Bobo doesn't know what the difference between GIF and JPEG is. He thinks PNG is a foreign country. All the pages Bobo has designed say "Welcome to [organisation] online!" at the top, and say "click here!" at least three times per page. Bobo has used Photoshop before; he doesn't understand why people keep asking if he's ever been tested for color-blindness. Bobo never got that "its" / "it's" distinction real clear, as you can tell from his pages. Bobo likes
- boston brown bread — a dark, sweetened, steamed bread made of cornmeal, rye or wheat flour, etc., and molasses
- bottle-nosed whale — any of various beaked whales of the family Hyperoodontidae, characterized by a bulbous forehead, especially Hyperoodon ampullatus of the North Atlantic.
- brazilian rosewood — a Brazilian tree, Dalbergia nigra, of the legume family.
- broken twill weave — a twill weave in which the direction of the diagonal produced by the weft threads is reversed after no more than two passages of the weft.
- capital allowances — the money spent by a company on fixed assets which can be taken off the profits of the company before tax is imposed
- carpenterworm moth — any moth of the family Cossidae, as Prionoxystus robiniae of the U.S. and southern Canada, whose larvae bore into the trunks and branches of oaks, locusts, and other trees.
- cauliflower cheese — a dish of cauliflower with a cheese sauce, eaten hot
- cauliflower fungus — a large edible white to yellowish cauliflowerlike mushroom, Sparassis radicata, widely distributed in North America.
- chew someone's ear — to reprimand severely
- chinese watermelon — a tropical Asian vine, Benincasa hispida, of the gourd family, having a brown, hairy stem, large, solitary, yellow flowers, and white, melonlike fruit.
- chuck-will's-widow — a large North American nightjar, Caprimulgus carolinensis, similar to the whippoorwill
- claw-and-ball foot — ball-and-claw foot.
- clew down (or up) — to lower (or raise) a sail by means of clew lines
- clothing allowance — an amount of money to compensate for the purchase of clothes for work, school, etc
- coals to newcastle — If someone is taking coals to Newcastle, they are trying to give or sell someone something that they already have a lot of.
- come down the pike — When something comes down the pike, it happens or occurs.
- come someone's way — to come within someone's scope or range; come to someone
- come the raw prawn — to attempt deception
- come to grips with — If you come to grips with a problem, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
- come to light with — to find or produce
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