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15-letter words containing w, d, a

  • leeward islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean, in the N Lesser Antilles between Puerto Rico and Martinique
  • levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • low bandwidth x — (networking)   (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
  • lower east side — a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • mad cow disease — BSE: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • maid-in-waiting — an unmarried woman who serves as an attendant to a queen or princess; lady-in-waiting.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • meadow nematode — any of numerous parasitic nematodes of the genus Pratylenchus that infest and destroy the roots of plants.
  • medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
  • mendeleev's law — periodic law (def 2).
  • mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • network address — (networking)   1. The network portion of an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also subnet address, Internet Registry. 2. (Or "net address") An electronic mail address on the network. In the 1980s this might have been a bang path but now (1997) it is nearly always a domain address. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. science-fiction fandom). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also sitename, domainist.
  • new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
  • newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • nomex underwear — /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [Usenet] Synonym asbestos longjohns, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resistance measure and required in some racing series.
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • north tonawanda — a city in W New York.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • nuclear warhead — a warhead containing a fission or fusion bomb.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
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