16-letter words containing w, f, t, u
- 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.
- bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
- butterfly flower — Also called Jerusalem date. a shrub or small tree, Bauhinia monandra, of French Guiana, having clusters of pink, purple-streaked flowers.
- by word of mouth — orally rather than by written means
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- follow-up letter — a letter sent as a follow-up to an initial letter or to a telephone call, meeting, etc
- fool around with — have casual sex
- 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.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- 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'.
- if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
- junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
- know one's stuff — If you say that someone knows their stuff, you mean that they are good at doing something because they know a lot about it.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- 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.
- out of the woods — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- powerfully built — (of a person, esp a man) big and physically strong, with large muscles
- put a foot wrong — to make a mistake
- sawn-off shotgun — A sawn-off shotgun is a shotgun on which the barrel has been cut short. Guns like this are often used by criminals because they can be easily hidden.
- soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
- tomato fruitworm — corn earworm.
- twenty-four-hour — lasting for twenty-four hours
- two-family house — a house designed for occupation by two families in contiguous apartments, as on separate floors.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- utility software — system software that manages and optimizes the performance of hardware
- well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- wheel of fortune — wheel (def 9).
- wish fulfillment — gratification of desires.
- wishful thinking — interpretation of facts, actions, words, etc., as one would like them to be rather than as they really are; imagining as actual what is not.
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty
- wrongful trading — the act of allowing a company to continue trading when its insolvency is inevitable
- yellowfin (tuna) — a tuna (Thunnus albacares) with yellow fins and a yellow stripe on each side, important as a game and food fish and found worldwide in warm seas
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