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

  • no-win situation — choice between negative outcomes
  • norwegian buhund — a slightly-built medium-sized dog of a breed with erect pointed ears and a short thick tail carried curled over its back
  • one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics)   A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
  • portmanteau word — a case or bag to carry clothing in while traveling, especially a leather trunk or suitcase that opens into two halves.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
  • put someone wise — having the power of discerning and judging properly as to what is true or right; possessing discernment, judgment, or discretion.
  • round the wrekin — the long way round
  • sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
  • sumo (wrestling) — a highly stylized Japanese form of wrestling engaged in by large, extremely heavy men
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • swiss tournament — (in certain games and sports) a tournament system in which players are paired in each round according to the scores they then have, playing a new opponent each time. More players can take part than in an all-play-all tournament of the same duration
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
  • turn upside down — invert
  • twenty questions — an oral game in which one player selects a word or object whose identity the other players attempt to guess by asking up to twenty questions that can be answered with a yes or a no.
  • twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • under one's wing — in one's care or tutelage
  • unknown quantity — mathematics: amount not known
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • unskilled worker — a worker who does not have any special skill or training
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • voluntary worker — a person who serves or acts in a specified function of their own accord and without compulsion or promise of remuneration
  • week in week out — If you say that something happens week in week out, you do not like it because it happens all the time, and never seems to change.
  • well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • what do you know — People sometimes say 'What do you know!' when they are very surprised about something.
  • wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
  • windsor, duke of — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
  • without ceremony — in a casual or informal manner
  • without question — If you do something without question, you do it without arguing or asking why it is necessary.
  • woman about town — a socially active, sophisticated woman who frequents fashionable nightclubs, theaters, restaurants, etc.
  • women's suffrage — right of adult females to vote
  • woodland caribou — a variety of caribou inhabiting the bogs and forests of eastern Canada, having large, palmate antlers.
  • woodland culture — a long pre-Columbian tradition characterized by the corded pottery of a hunting and later agricultural people of the eastern U.S. noted for the construction of burial mounds and other structures and dating from c1000 b.c. to a.d. 1700.
  • world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
  • writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
  • wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
  • wrought ironwork — decorative work in wrought iron
  • yellow underwing — any of several species of noctuid moths (Noctua and Anarta species), the hind wings of which are yellow with a black bar
  • yellowfin (tuna) — a tuna (Thunnus albacares) with yellow fins and a yellow stripe on each side, important as a game and food fish and found worldwide in warm seas
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