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16-letter words containing s, e, w, a, r, d

  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • 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.
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • 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.
  • windward passage — a strait in the West Indies, between Cuba and Haiti. 50 miles (80 km) wide.
  • wire-transferred — to transmit (money or credit) by wire transfer.
  • world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
  • world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
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