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16-letter words containing w, a, d

  • seward peninsula — a peninsula in W Alaska, on Bering Strait.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • shared ownership — (in Britain) a form of house purchase whereby the purchaser buys a proportion of the dwelling, usually from a local authority or housing association, and rents the rest
  • shorthand writer — a person trained to write in shorthand
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • show-me attitude — a sceptical frame of mind
  • social darwinism — a 19th-century theory, inspired by Darwinism, by which the social order is accounted as the product of natural selection of those persons best suited to existing living conditions and in accord with which a position of laissez-faire is advocated.
  • spanish windlass — a stick used as a device for twisting and tightening a rope or cable
  • spit-and-sawdust — (of a pub) shabby, dirty, and basic
  • strawberry blond — reddish blond.
  • swamp buttonwood — the buttonbush.
  • swedenborgianism — of or relating to Emanuel Swedenborg, his religious doctrines, or the body of followers adhering to these doctrines and constituting the Church of the New Jerusalem, or New Church.
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • sweet almond oil — almond oil (def 1).
  • teutoburger wald — a chain of wooded hills in Germany, in Westphalia: Romans defeated by German tribes a.d.
  • the here and now — the present time
  • the war-disabled — those people who have been disabled by war
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • to wine and dine — If you wine and dine, or if someone wines and dines you, you go out, for example to expensive restaurants, and spend a lot of money.
  • traded endowment — A traded endowment is a traditional with-profits endowment policy that has been sold to a new owner part way through its term.
  • two-tailed pasha — a distinctive vanessid butterfly of S Europe, Charaxes jasius, having mottled brown wings with a yellow-orange margin and frilled hind edges
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • upside-down cake — a cake that is baked on a layer of fruit, then turned before serving so that the fruit is on top.
  • viewing audience — the audience reached by television
  • walking delegate — (formerly) an official appointed by a trade union to go from place to place to investigate working conditions, to ascertain whether union contracts were being fulfilled, and, sometimes, to negotiate contracts between employers and the union.
  • walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
  • walking dragline — a very large-capacity dragline mounted on feet or pads instead of tracks
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • wash one's hands — to go to the lavatory
  • washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
  • weather advisory — advisory (def 5).
  • weighted average — a mean that is computed with extra weight given to one or more elements of the sample.
  • well-appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • well-articulated — made clear or distinct: articulated sounds.
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • well-established — permanently founded; settled; firmly set: a well-established business; a well-established habit.
  • well-illustrated — containing pictures, drawings, and other illustrations: an illustrated book.
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • what do you know — People sometimes say 'What do you know!' when they are very surprised about something.
  • what's the odds? — what difference does it make?
  • whatever sb does — You say whatever you do when giving advice or warning someone about something.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • white propaganda — propaganda that comes from the source it claims to come from
  • white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • white wood aster — a composite plant, Aster divaricatus, of North America, having flat-topped clusters of white ray flowers and growing in dry woods.
  • white-haired boy — a favourite; darling
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wholeheartedness — fully or completely sincere, enthusiastic, energetic, etc.; hearty; earnest: a wholehearted attempt to comply.
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