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16-letter words containing r, a, w, n

  • 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.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • 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.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • 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
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • 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.
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • 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
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • 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
  • hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
  • 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.
  • icterine warbler — a European variety of tree warbler (Hippolais icterina )
  • 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
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • 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.
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • in-law apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • inclined railway — a cable railway used on particularly steep inclines unsuitable for normal adhesion locomotives
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling
  • industrial waste — waste materials left over from a manufacturing process in industrial buildings such as factories and mines
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
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