0%

16-letter words containing t, w

  • 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.
  • combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
  • 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
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
  • computer network — network
  • 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.
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • coursewriter iii — (language, education)   A simple CAI language, developed around 1976.
  • 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
  • creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
  • creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
  • 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
  • cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
  • 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
  • development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair
  • down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
  • east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
  • eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • electrical power — electricity
  • elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • eyebrow tweezers — small tweezers for plucking hairs out of your eyebrows
Was this page helpful?
Yes No
Thank you for your feedback! Tell your friends about this page
Tell us why?