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14-letter words containing w, e, y

  • a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
  • abraham cowleyAbraham, 1618–67, English poet.
  • acknowledgedly — by general agreement, admittedly
  • across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
  • aerial railway — a system of railway cars that move on cables
  • aerial tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
  • b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
  • bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
  • brewer's yeast — a yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, used in brewing
  • butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
  • c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • campeachy wood — wood from the Central American tree Haematoxylon campechianum
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • family viewing — television programmes that are suitable for both adults and children
  • feel one's way — to move or advance cautiously, by or as if by groping
  • find one's way — If you find your way somewhere, you successfully get there by choosing the right way to go.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • get jiggy with — to have sexual relations with
  • go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • granary weevil — a reddish-brown weevil, Sitophilus granarius, that infests stored grain.
  • graveyard stew — milk toast.
  • great gray owl — a large, dish-faced, gray owl, Strix nebulosa, of northern North America and western Eurasia, having streaked and barred plumage.
  • guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • hammer away at — persist
  • hattie carawayHattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
  • heartwarmingly — In a heartwarming manner.
  • heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
  • hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • honeycomb work — stalactite work.
  • honeydew melon — a variety of the winter melon, Cucumis melo inodorus, having a smooth, pale-green rind and sweet, juicy, light-green flesh.
  • hungry viewkit — (operating system, library)   A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.

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