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14-letter words containing w, i, d, e, r

  • air stewardess — a stewardess on an airliner
  • andrew toolkit — (tool)   (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
  • bewilderedness — the state of being bewildered
  • big red switch — (jargon)   (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • brownie guider — the adult leader of a pack of Brownie Guides
  • cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • daniel websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
  • detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
  • dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • 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 pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • 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
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • 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.
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
  • guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
  • hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
  • 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.
  • heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
  • homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
  • hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
  • hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
  • in other words — that is to say
  • indian-wrestle — to engage in Indian wrestling: to Indian-wrestle for the city championship.

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