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16-letter words containing w, a, f

  • african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
  • artificial crown — the enamel-covered part of a tooth above the gum
  • as far as i know — You can use far in expressions like 'as far as I know' and 'so far as I remember' to indicate that you are not absolutely sure of the statement you are about to make or have just made, and you may be wrong.
  • away from sb/sth — If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place.
  • balance of power — The balance of power is the way in which power is distributed between rival groups or countries.
  • beneficial owner — a person entitled to receive the profits or proceeds of property
  • birthwort family — the plant family Aristolochiaceae, typified by mostly tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants, having alternate, heart-shaped leaves and flowers lacking true petals but having three petallike sepals, and including the birthwort, Dutchman's-pipe, and wild ginger.
  • blackwater fever — a rare and serious complication of malaria, characterized by massive destruction of red blood cells, producing dark red or blackish urine
  • blue dawn-flower — a tropical American vine, Ipomoea acuminata, of the morning glory family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers that turn from blue to pink.
  • break faith with — If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
  • buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
  • 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.
  • canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
  • catch a few zeds — to have a nap
  • cayenne software — (company)   The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
  • chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
  • chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
  • clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
  • cock of the walk — a person who asserts himself or herself in a strutting pompous way
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
  • darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
  • fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
  • family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
  • farewell address — (initial capital letters) U.S. History. a statement that President George Washington published in a Philadelphia newspaper in 1796 to announce that he would not run for a third term and to give his views on foreign and domestic policy.
  • farewell to arms — a novel (1929) by Ernest Hemingway.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
  • first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • forswear oneself — to swear falsely; perjure oneself
  • fort leavenworth — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.
  • forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
  • forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
  • forward contract — a contract to buy or sell an asset at a point in the future at a previously agreed price
  • forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • forward planning — business: making future provisions
  • 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.

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