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

  • acknowledgements — Plural form of acknowledgement.
  • andrew tanenbaum — (person)   Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Tanenbaum is famous for his work and books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the International Standards Organisation, Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) network model. See Amoeba, Mac-1, Mic-1, Mic-2, Micro Assembly Language, MINIX, MicroProgramming Language, standard.
  • around the world — in many countries
  • 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
  • beat to the draw — to be quicker than (another) in doing something, as in drawing one's weapon
  • blue-winged teal — a small North American duck (Anas discors) found on ponds and rivers
  • 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
  • call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
  • catch a few zeds — to have a nap
  • catchwater drain — a channel cut along the edge of high ground to catch surface water from it and divert it away from low-lying ground
  • catherine howardCatherine, c1520–42, fifth wife of Henry VIII.
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • cold wall effect — the condition or state of having large or multiple windows through which heat escapes and cold air is conducted into a heated room via radiation.
  • commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
  • cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
  • 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
  • down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
  • elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • forward contract — a contract to buy or sell an asset at a point in the future at a previously agreed price
  • forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • francis townsendFrancis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • have a word with — discuss
  • have in the wind — to be in the act of following (quarry) by scent
  • have the wood on — to have an advantage over
  • heavy with child — pregnant
  • 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.
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream
  • 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 the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
  • indian wrestling — arm wrestling

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