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16-letter words containing s, o, w, n

  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
  • 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.
  • go one's own way — If you go your own way, you do what you want rather than what everyone else does or expects.
  • goodwill mission — a group of people sent to a foreign country to express goodwill
  • 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
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • 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.
  • hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • 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.
  • if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • 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.
  • 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 someone's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
  • in the worst way — bad or ill in the highest, greatest, or most extreme degree: the worst person.
  • inofficious will — a will inconsistent with the moral duty and natural affection of the testator, especially one denying the legitimate heirs the portions of the estate to which they are legally entitled.
  • invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
  • keynote software — A company which offers software-based business contact directories for people who develop, manufacture, market, or distribute software or multimedia products. E-mail: <[email protected]> (Subject: SEND INDEX).
  • know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • know one's stuff — If you say that someone knows their stuff, you mean that they are good at doing something because they know a lot about it.
  • know what's what — to know how one thing or things in general work
  • law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
  • lord howe island — an island in the S Pacific, E of Australia: a dependency of New South Wales. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • man of few words — man who speaks very little
  • minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
  • monkey's wedding — a combination of sunshine and light rain
  • most wanted list — an actual or supposed listing of the names of persons who are urgently being sought for a specific reason, as apprehension for an alleged crime.
  • mount washington — a mountain in N New Hampshire, in the White Mountains: the highest peak in the northeast US; noted for extreme weather conditions. Height: 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • narrowmindedness — Alternative spelling of narrow-mindedness.
  • network analysis — a mathematical method of analyzing complex problems, as in transportation or project scheduling, by representing the problem as a network of lines and nodes.
  • network database — (database)   A kind of database management system in which each record type can have multiple owners, e.g. orders are owned by both customers and products. This contrasts with a hierarchical database (one owner) or relational database (no explicit owner).
  • new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
  • new orleans jazz — the jazz originating in New Orleans from about 1914; traditional jazz
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • newspaper report — a report published in a newspaper
  • nine-days wonder — something that arouses great interest, but only for a short period
  • no-win situation — choice between negative outcomes
  • northwesternmost — Farthest northwest.
  • not worth a shit — useless, valueless, etc.
  • observation ward — a ward in a hospital where patients are monitored
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