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16-letter words containing w, e, d

  • development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
  • distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • 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.
  • down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
  • downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • dree one's weird — to endure one's fate
  • drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • dual carriageway — divided highway.
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
  • dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • edward the elder — died 924 ad, king of England (899–924), son of Alfred the Great
  • electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
  • elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • 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.
  • federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
  • firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
  • first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • follow the crowd — copy what others are doing
  • follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
  • forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • four-letter word — any of a number of short words, usually of four letters, considered offensive or vulgar because of their reference to excrement or sex.
  • four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
  • francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
  • friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
  • friedrich wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
  • from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
  • gregory's powder — a formulation of rhubarb powder used as a laxative or purgative
  • hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • have a word with — discuss
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