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14-letter words containing w, i, n, d, s

  • power dressing — a style of dressing in severely tailored suits, adopted by some women executives to project an image of efficiency
  • power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
  • prawn-sandwich — characterizing or belonging to the type of spectator at a football match who is motivated to attend more by the corporate hospitality available than a true devotion to a particular club
  • pull-down list — (operating system)   (Or "drop-down list") A graphical user interface component that allows the user to choose one (or sometimes more than one) item from a list. The current choice is visible in a small rectangle and when the user clicks on it, a list of items is revealed below it. The user can then click on one of these to make it the current choice and the list disappears. In some cases, by holding down a modifier key such as Ctrl when clicking, the selection is added to (or removed from) the set of current choices rather than replacing it.
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • put into words — express in language
  • raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
  • sandalwood oil — extract of fragrant Asian wood
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • sandwich glass — any of various forms of glassware manufactured at Sandwich, Mass., from 1825 to c1890.
  • sandwich panel — a structural panel consisting of a core of one material enclosed between two sheets of a different material.
  • series winding — the winding of an electric motor or generator in such a way that the field and armature circuits are connected in series
  • shadow cabinet — (in the British Parliament) a group of prominent members of the opposition who are expected to hold positions in the cabinet when their party assumes power.
  • shallow-minded — lacking intellectual or mental depth or subtlety; superficial
  • shawinigan-sud — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, S of Shawinigan.
  • shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
  • silver wedding — a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary.
  • sit-down money — social security benefits
  • snow blindness — the usually temporary dimming of the sight caused by the glare of reflected sunlight on snow.
  • spending power — income available for spending
  • standing water — still water that has stagnated
  • stewart island — one of the islands of New Zealand, S of South Island. 670 sq. mi. (1735 sq. km).
  • swedish turnip — rutabaga.
  • swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
  • the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
  • transom window — a window divided by a transom.
  • washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
  • watling island — San Salvador (def 1).
  • weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
  • welfare island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • well-fashioned — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
  • well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
  • well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
  • when it's done — (jargon)   A manufacturer's non-answer to questions about product availability. This answer allows the manufacturer to pretend to communicate with their customers without setting themselves any deadlines or revealing how behind schedule the product really is. It also sounds slightly better than "We don't know".
  • whistling duck — any of several long-legged, chiefly tropical ducks of the genus Dendrocygna, most of which have whistling cries.
  • wide-spreading — spreading over or covering a large area: wide-spreading showers; wide-spreading ivy.
  • wild monkshood — a plant, Aconitum uncinatum, of the buttercup family, native to the eastern central U.S., having roundish leaves and hooded, blue flowers, growing in rich, moist soil.
  • win hands down — be outright winner
  • windmill grass — finger grass.
  • window display — an arrangement of items in a shop window
  • window dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
  • window-dresser — a person employed to trim the display windows of a store.
  • window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
  • windows nt 3.1 — (operating system)   Microsoft's first version of Windows NT, released in September 1993, price UKP 395, after having been in beta-test for as long as anyone could remember. The person responsible for VMS on the DEC VAX [who?] was also responsible for Windows NT. Incrementing each letter in VMS yields WNT.
  • windows nt 3.5 — (operating system)   A much improved version of Microsoft's Windows NT 3.1. NT is now (July 1996) supplied as "Windows NT 3.5 Workstation" and "Windows NT 3.5 Server". It has better OLE support, higher performance and requires less memory.
  • windows xp pro — Windows XP Professional Edition
  • windsor castle — a castle in the town of Windsor in Berkshire, residence of English monarchs since its founding by William the Conqueror
  • windsor rocker — a Windsor chair on rockers
  • woodrow wilson — Sir Angus (Frank Johnstone) [jon-stuh n,, -suh n] /ˈdʒɒn stən,, -sən/ (Show IPA), 1913–91, English writer.
  • word blindness — alexia.
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