12-letter words containing w, d, a, s
- acid washing — a process in which a denim garment is treated with a bleach solution containing chlorine-soaked stones so that the color becomes faded and the material is softer.
- acknowledges — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- amdahl's law — (parallel) (Named after Gene Amdahl) If F is the fraction of a calculation that is sequential, and (1-F) is the fraction that can be parallelised, then the maximum speedup that can be achieved by using P processors is 1/(F+(1-F)/P).
- antispinward — (often science fiction) In a rotating reference frame, against the direction of spin.
- ass-backward — the wrong way round; back to front; in the opposite order to what is considered normal
- assbackwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
- backswordman — a person who uses a backsword.
- backwardness — toward the back or rear.
- backwoodsman — Backwoodsmen are people, especially politicians, who like the old ways of doing things, or who are involved in an organization at a local level.
- backwoodsmen — Plural form of backwoodsman.
- bastard wing — a tuft of feathers attached to the first digit of a bird, distinct from the wing feathers attached to the other digits and the ulna
- bastardsword — Alternative spelling of bastard sword.
- bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
- caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
- chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
- cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
- disallowable — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dismal swamp — a swamp in SE Virginia and NE North Carolina. About 30 miles (48 km) long; about 600 sq. mi. (1500 sq. km).
- dovetail saw — a backsaw for fine woodworking, as dovetailing.
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- drawlingness — the quality or characteristic of a drawler
- dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
- easting down — the passage eastward from the Cape of Good Hope, as made by a sailing ship bound for Australia or the East Indies.
- edwardsville — a town in SW Illinois.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- false mildew — downy mildew (def 1).
- false-mildew — Also called false mildew. any fungus of the family Peronosporaceae, causing many plant diseases and producing a white, downy mass of conidiophores, usually on the under surface of the leaves of the host plant.
- fast forward — advance rapidly through
- fast-forward — a function of an audio or video recorder or player, as a cassette deck or DVR, that allows the content to be advanced rapidly.
- flash powder — powder that could be ignited to provide a bright light to take a photograph
- flashforward — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which a future event or scene is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- foreshadowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshadow.
- foreshadower — One who or that which foreshadows.
- forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
- forward pass — a pass in which the ball is thrown in the direction of advance toward the opponent's goal.
- forward post — the position held by a soldier on the forward line
- forward push — A forward push is a feature of distillation columns (= tall vessels for distillation) in which zones that allow higher contact between substances are near the top of the column.
- forward sale — the sale of something that is to be delivered and paid for at a later date
- gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
- godwin's law — (humour) "As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." There is a tradition in many groups that, once this occurs, that thread is over, and whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically lost whatever argument was in progress. Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups. However there is also a widely recognised codicil that any intentional triggering of Godwin's Law in order to invoke its thread-ending effects will be unsuccessful.
- grandnephews — Plural form of grandnephew.
- grosswardein — German name of Oradea.
- harper woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
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