12-letter words containing p, w
- all-powerful — An all-powerful person or organization has the power to do anything they want.
- ampere's law — the law that a magnetic field induced by an electric current is, at any point, directly proportional to the product of the current intensity and the length of the current conductor, inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the point and the conductor, and perpendicular to the plane joining the point and the conductor.
- answer print — a motion-picture film print composed of picture and sound, used for evaluation.
- antispinward — (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
- antwerp blue — any of several iron-blue pigments, usually containing a considerable amount of extender.
- apple newton — (computer) A Personal Digital Assistant produced by Apple Computer. The Newton provides a clever, user-friendly interface and relies solely on pen-based input. Eagerly anticipated, the Newton uses handwriting recognition software to "learn" the users handwriting and provide reliable character recognition. Various third-party software applications are available and add-on peripherals like wireless modems for Internet access are being sold by Apple Computer, Inc. and its licensees.
- appletviewer — (web, testing) A simplified web browser used for testing applets. You can't browse HTML with it but you can run applets to test them before embedding them in a web page.
- athwartships — from one side to the other of a vessel at right angles to the keel
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- attawapiskat — a river in NE Ontario, Canada, flowing E and N to James Bay. 465 miles (748 km) long.
- baden-powell — Robert Stephenson Smyth (smɪθ, smaɪθ), 1st Baron Baden-Powell. 1857–1941, British general, noted for his defence of Mafeking (1899–1900) in the Boer War; founder of the Boy Scouts (1908) and (with his sister Agnes) the Girl Guides (1910)
- baldwin park — city in SW Calif.: suburb of Los Angeles: pop. 76,000
- banana prawn — a prawn of the genus Penaeus, fished commercially in tropical waters of N Australia
- barrow point — the northernmost tip of Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean
- bathing wrap — a loose robe to wear after bathing, often made of towelling
- black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
- buying power — the amount of services or goods a company, person, group or currency is able to purchase
- buying-power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
- cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
- cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
- cashew apple — the soft, swollen, pear-shaped stalk of the cashew tree, to which a cashew nut is attached: used in preserves and wine.
- chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- cock sparrow — a male sparrow
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
- company town — a town built by a company for its employees
- complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- counterpower — an opposing power
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
- crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- disempowered — Simple past tense and past participle of disempower.
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
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