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14-letter words containing w, e, n

  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
  • disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • ewe equivalent — the basic measure for calculating stock unit
  • exit interview — an interview held with an employee who is leaving an organization in order to learn the employee's opinion of his or her time spent at the organization, reasons for departure, etc
  • expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • fellow citizen — law: national of same country
  • fellow feeling — sympathetic feeling; sympathy: to have fellow feeling for the unfortunate.
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
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