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16-letter words containing s, w, a, t

  • acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
  • ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
  • arthur wellesley1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
  • as is one's wont — If someone does a particular thing as is their wont, they do that thing often or regularly.
  • 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.
  • australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
  • away from sb/sth — If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place.
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • blow one's stack — to lose one's temper; fly into a rage
  • boatswain's mate — a job classification in the US navy
  • boatswain's pipe — a whistle used formerly to give orders on board ship
  • brave west winds — the strong west and west-northwest winds blowing between latitudes 40° S and 60° S.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • catch a few zeds — to have a nap
  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
  • 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 wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
  • clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
  • conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
  • conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
  • conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • 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.
  • freshwater pearl — any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.
  • giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
  • 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
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • have issues with — If someone has issues with a particular aspect of their life, they have problems connected with it.
  • hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
  • hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
  • high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
  • high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
  • how's that for…? — is this satisfactory as regards…?
  • 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.

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