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12-letter words containing w, d, r, u

  • below ground — If something is below ground or below the ground, it is in the ground.
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • counter word — any word freely used as a general term of approval or disapproval without reference to its more exact meaning, as nice, terrible, lousy, terrific
  • counter-word — a word, often of short-lived popularity, widely used as an almost meaningless, automatic response.
  • counterworld — an alternative world opposite to the virtual world
  • crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
  • crowdfunding — Crowdfunding is when a large number of people each give an amount of money to pay for a project, especially by using a website to collect the money.
  • crowdsourced — Obtained by crowdsourcing.
  • curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
  • darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
  • double crown — a size of printing paper, 20 × 30 inches (51 × 76 cm).
  • downregulate — To decrease the number of cell receptors by using downregulation.
  • draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
  • drawbar pull — the force, measured in pounds, available to a locomotive for pulling rolling stock after overcoming its own tractive resistance.
  • drawn butter — melted butter, clarified and often seasoned with herbs or lemon juice.
  • dust wrapper — dust jacket (sense 1)
  • dwarf laurel — a low North American shrub, Kalmia angustifolia, of the heath family, having oblong leaves poisonous to grazing animals.
  • 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.
  • fourth world — the world's most poverty-stricken nations, especially in Africa and Asia, marked by very low GNP per capita and great dependence upon foreign economic aid.
  • full forward — an attacking player who plays in the centre of the forward line
  • full powered — (of a vessel) relying on engines for propulsion without assistance from sails.
  • gateway drug — any mood-altering drug, as a stimulant or tranquilizer, that does not cause physical dependence but may lead to the use of addictive drugs, as heroin.
  • ground water — the water beneath the surface of the ground, consisting largely of surface water that has seeped down: the source of water in springs and wells.
  • groundworker — One who works on the ground, as opposed to an aviator, etc.
  • house wizard — (Probably from ad-agency tradetalk, "house freak") A hacker occupying a technical-specialist, R&D, or systems position at a commercial shop. A really effective house wizard can have influence out of all proportion to his/her ostensible rank and still not have to wear a suit. Used especially of Unix wizards. The term "house guru" is equivalent.
  • how dare you — You say 'how dare you' when you are very shocked and angry about something that someone has done.
  • industrywide — from, covering, or affecting an entire industry: industrywide profits.
  • laundrywoman — laundress.
  • laundrywomen — Plural form of laundrywoman.
  • mountainward — Towards a mountain or mountains.
  • multitowered — comprising several towers
  • multiwarhead — (of a missile) capable of carrying several independent warheads
  • naughty word — a word that is considered to be rude
  • outside work — work done off the premises of a business
  • powerbuilder — (tool, database)   A graphical user interface development tool from Powersoft for developing client-server database applications. It runs under MS-DOS(?) and Microsoft Windows. There are also versions for Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh, and Unix. Applications can be built by creating windows, controls (such as listboxes and buttons), and menus within the PowerBuilder development environment. The language used to program PowerBuilder, PowerScript, is loosely based on BASIC. PowerBuilder supports programming on many database backends including Sybase and Oracle. It also has added support for ODBC database drivers. PowerBuilder also comes with a built-in database backend (WATCOM SQL 32-bit relational database).
  • push forward — keep advancing
  • put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
  • putty powder — an abrasive consisting chiefly of stannic oxide, used for polishing hard surfaces.
  • round barrow — a funerary barrow having a bell, disk, saucer, or pond shape, primarily of the Bronze Age and containing the cremated remains of corpses along with grave artifacts.
  • round window — a membrane-covered opening in the inner wall of the middle ear that compensates for changes in cochlear pressure.
  • ruby wedding — a fortieth wedding anniversary
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • series-wound — noting a commutator motor in which the field circuit and armature circuit are connected in series.
  • slum-dweller — a person who lives in a slum.
  • snowed under — If you say that you are snowed under, you are emphasizing that you have a lot of work or other things to deal with.
  • southernwood — a woody-stemmed wormwood, Artemisia abrotanum, of southern Europe, having aromatic, finely dissected leaves.
  • square-jawed — having a regular, approximately rectangular jaw
  • squared away — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • swiss guards — a corps of Swiss mercenary soldiers, esp. those hired as Vatican bodyguards to the pope
  • throw around — ideas, etc.: exchange, brainstorm

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