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

  • acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
  • answer-back code — a unique code that identifies the telex machine to which a message is sent
  • at daggers drawn — If you say that two people are at daggers drawn, you mean they are having an argument and are still very angry with each other.
  • atwood's machine — a device consisting of two unequal masses connected by a string passed over a pulley, used to illustrate the laws of motion.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
  • break one's word — to fail to keep one's promise
  • brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • capsule wardrobe — a collection of clothes and accessories that includes only items considered essential
  • catch a few zeds — to have a nap
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • chinese windlass — differential windlass
  • chinese wood oil — tung oil.
  • circuit switched — circuit switching
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
  • dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • francis townsendFrancis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • gregory's powder — a formulation of rhubarb powder used as a laxative or purgative
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • 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.
  • hen of the woods — a large, grayish-brown, edible fungus, Polyporus frondosus, forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees and somewhat resembling a hen.
  • hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
  • in ones and twos — You can use in ones and twos to indicate that people do things or something happens gradually and in small groups.

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