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14-letter words containing t, o, w

  • newsworthiness — The characteristic of being newsworthy.
  • newton's rings — a series of bright and dark rings that appear when a convex lens comes into contact with a glass plate, and which are caused by light interference
  • no matter what — whatever
  • norbert wienerNorbert, 1894–1964, U.S. mathematician: pioneer in cybernetics.
  • north-westerly — A north-westerly point, area, or direction is to the north-west or towards the north-west.
  • northeastwards — northeastward.
  • northern crown — the constellation Corona Borealis.
  • northwesterner — a native or inhabitant of the northwest.
  • northwestwards — northwestward.
  • norway lobster — a European lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, fished for food
  • noteworthiness — The quality or state of being noteworthy.
  • novell netware — (operating system, networking)   Novell, Inc.'s proprietary networking operating system for the IBM PC. NetWare uses the IPX/SPX, NetBEUI or TCP/IP network protocols. It supports MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2, Macintosh and Unix clients. NetWare for Unix lets users access Unix hosts. NetWare 2.2 is a 16-bit operating system, versions 4.x and 3.x are 32-bit operating systems.
  • oil the wheels — to make things run smoothly
  • on the downlow — not widely known
  • on the wallaby — (of a person) wandering about looking for work
  • on the warpath — the path or course taken by American Indians on a warlike expedition.
  • on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
  • one's twenties — the ages between 20–29
  • one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
  • one-horse town — a small or obscure town
  • one-way street — If you describe an agreement or a relationship as a one-way street, you mean that only one of the sides in the agreement or relationship is offering something or is benefitting from it.
  • one-way ticket — transport: single-journey fare
  • out of nowhere — unexpectedly
  • out of the way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
  • out the window — discarded or wasted
  • out-of-the-way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
  • overshot wheel — a water wheel in which the water enters the buckets tangentially near the top of the wheel.
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • owlet nightjar — any of several birds of the family Aegothelidae, of Australia and Papua New Guinea, related to the nightjars but resembling small owls.
  • owner-operator — a driver, especially of a truck or taxicab, who owns and operates a vehicle used to earn a living.
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • paint the town — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • parchment worm — any of several polychaete worms of the genus Chaetopterus that secrete and live in a U -shaped, parchmentlike tube.
  • partridge wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • partridge-wood — the rotted condition of the wood of certain trees, especially oaks, caused by a parasitic fungus, Xylobolus frustulatus.
  • petworth house — a mansion in Petworth in Sussex: rebuilt (1688–96) for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset; gardens laid out by Capability Brown; subject of paintings by Turner
  • picture window — a large window in a house, usually dominating the room or wall in which it is located, and often designed or placed to present an attractive view.
  • pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
  • postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
  • potter's wheel — a device with a rotating horizontal disk upon which clay is molded by a potter.
  • powder compact — make-up: small case of foundation
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • power politics — political action characterized by the exercise or pursuit of power as a means of coercion.
  • power steering — an automotive steering system in which the engine's power is used to supplement the driver's effort in turning the steering wheel.
  • power struggle — fight to take control
  • power-assisted — a procedure for supplementing or replacing the manual effort needed to operate a device or system, often by hydraulic, electrical, or mechanical means.
  • power-on reset — (hardware)   (POR) The processes that take place when a hardware device is turned on. This may include running power-on self-test or reloading software from non-volatile storage. The term implies that the device has some reasonably complex internal state that will be set back to a "normal" initial condition. This state may include the physical state of the device (e.g. a printer) as well as data in the memory of an embedded system. If a device has no reset button, and sometimes even if it does, turning it off and on again (power cycling) may be the only way to clear a fault.
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
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