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13-letter words containing r, a, w

  • dwarf ginseng — a plant, Panax trifolius, of eastern North America, having globe-shaped clusters of small, white flowers and yellow fruit.
  • early warning — An early warning system warns people that something bad is likely to happen, for example that a machine is about to stop working, or that a country is being attacked.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • easterly wave — a westward-moving, wavelike disturbance of low atmospheric pressure embedded in tropical easterly winds.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward jenner — Edward, 1749–1823, English physician: discoverer of smallpox vaccine.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • edwardsianism — a modified form of Calvinism taught by Jonathan Edwards.
  • european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
  • fairview park — a city in N Ohio.
  • fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • father-in-law — the father of one's husband or wife.
  • featherweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a bantamweight and a lightweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 126 pounds (57 kg).
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
  • flaming sword — a cultivated bromeliad, Vriesea splendens, native to French Guiana, having long, red bracts and yellow flowers.
  • flash-forward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
  • flower garden — plot for flowers
  • flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
  • foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
  • formal review — (project)   A technical review conducted with the customer including the types of reviews called for in DOD-STD-2167A (Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Review, etc.)
  • forward delta — The delta which, when combined with a version, creates a child version. See change management
  • forward slash — a short oblique stroke (/), or slash, especially one used in computer programming or to specify an Internet address or computer filename.
  • four-way stop — an intersection of two roads with four stop signs, one facing in each direction
  • fowler's toad — an eastern U.S. toad, Bufo woodhousii fowleri, having an almost patternless white belly.
  • frank whittle — Sir Frank, 1907–96, English engineer and inventor.
  • free software — (software)   Software that everyone is free to copy, redistribute and modify. That implies free software must be available as source code, hence "free open source software" - "FOSS". It is usually also free of charge, though anyone can sell free software so long as they don't impose any new restrictions on its redistribution or use. The widespread acceptance of this definition and free software itself owes a great deal to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. There are many other kinds of "free software" in the sense of "free of charge". See "-ware".
  • freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
  • frighten away — cause sb/sth to run away
  • frozen wastes — vast parts of land covered by snow and ice and usually uninhabited by people
  • fusarium wilt — a disease of plants, characterized by damping-off, wilting, and a brown dry rot, caused by fungi of the genus Fusarium.
  • gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
  • gallows frame — headframe.
  • gallows humor — humor that treats serious, frightening, or painful subject matter in a light or satirical way.
  • garret window — a skylight that lies along the slope of the roof
  • garrison town — a town containing a military base
  • genital warts — a sexually transmitted disease caused by the human papilloma virus; the warts grow in the genital area
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • giant ragweed — any of the composite plants of the genus Ambrosia, the airborne pollen of which is the most prevalent cause of autumnal hay fever, as the common North American species, A. trifida (great ragweed or giant ragweed) and A. artemisiifolia.
  • giant redwood — big tree.
  • girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gradient wind — a wind with a velocity and direction that are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force to the centrifugal force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • granular snow — a rare form of opaque precipitation consisting of very tiny ice crystals
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