16-letter words containing w, a, l
- de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
- 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
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
- electrical power — electricity
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- 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.
- fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
- fellow traveller — a companion on a journey
- 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).
- 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 delivery — delivery at a future date.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- freshwater pearl — any of the small pearls produced especially by freshwater mussels.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
- gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
- geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
- goolagong cawley — Evonne [ih-von,, ee-von] /ɪˈvɒn,, iˈvɒn/ (Show IPA), born 1951, Australian tennis player.
- great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- have a talk with — discuss
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- heavy with child — pregnant
- hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
- high-level waste — radioactive waste material, such as spent nuclear fuel initially having a high activity and thus needing constant cooling for several decades by its producers before it can be reprocessed or treated
- hit a brick wall — unable to continue or make progress because of a hindrance
- hole in the wall — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
- hole-in-the-wall — A hole-in-the-wall machine is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account by using a special card.