16-letter words containing w, e, i, f
- beneficial owner — a person entitled to receive the profits or proceeds of property
- blow the lid off — a removable or hinged cover for closing the opening, usually at the top, of a pot, jar, trunk, etc.; a movable cover.
- break faith with — If you break faith with someone you made a promise to or something you believed in, you stop acting in a way that supports them.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- call of the wild — a novel (1903) by Jack London.
- chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
- darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- 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-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- 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.
- 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.
- go with the flow — take a relaxed approach
- go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
- guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
- hopfield network — (artificial intelligence) (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
- house of worship — house of God.
- imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
- in the shadow of — very close to; verging upon
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- kondratieff wave — a long business cycle of economic expansion and contraction, postulated to last about 60 years.
- littoral warfare — military combat conducted in coastal areas.
- lower california — Baja California.
- matthew flinders — Matthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
- matthew of paris — c1200–59, English chronicler.
- minerva software — A company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
- new frontiersman — an advocate or follower of the New Frontier, especially one in public service.
- newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
- offensive weapon — an instrument designed to be used in attack, or an object which may be used in attack
- one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
- pearls of wisdom — good advice, wise words
- place of worship — religious house: church, temple
- portfolio worker — a person in portfolio employment
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- robin goodfellow — Puck (def 1).
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- spring snowflake — a European amaryllidaceous plant, Leucojum vernum, with white nodding bell-shaped flowers
- swiss army knife — a small knife with blades and other tools, such as a nail file and corkscrew, all folding into the handle.
- the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
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