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14-letter words containing w, n, p, l

  • assault weapon — any of various automatic and semiautomatic military firearms utilizing an intermediate-power cartridge, designed for individual use. Compare assault rifle.
  • blow one's top — to lose one's temper
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • display window — shop window displaying goods
  • drop-down list — pull-down list
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dwarf fan palm — a small palm, Chamaedorea elegans, native to Central America, having a reedlike stem and long, pointed leaflets, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • employment law — rules governing working practices
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • footplatewoman — a female footplate worker
  • gridwall panel — A gridwall panel is a metal grid that can be hung on a wall and used for displaying goods.
  • gunpowder plot — an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics.
  • halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
  • healing powers — beneficial qualities
  • lappet weaving — weaving into which an embroidered pattern produced by additional warp threads has been introduced with the aid of a lappet.
  • lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
  • nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.
  • one fell swoop — a single hasty action or occurrence
  • opening bowler — a player who makes the first bowl in cricket
  • overspill town — a town built or expanded to house excess population from a nearby city
  • ownership flat — a flat owned by the occupier
  • parents-in-law — the father or mother of one's wife or husband.
  • pelican-flower — a woody vine, Aristolochia grandiflora, of the West Indies, having heart-shaped leaves and purple-spotted, purple-veined flowers from 18 to 24 inches (46 to 61 cm) wide with a long, taillike structure at the tip of the corolla.
  • pendulum watch — (formerly) a watch having a balance wheel, especially a balance wheel bearing a fake pendulum bob oscillating behind a window in the dial.
  • peninsular war — the war (1808–14) fought in the Iberian Peninsula by British, Portuguese, and Spanish forces against the French, resulting in the defeat of the French: part of the Napoleonic Wars
  • persian walnut — English walnut.
  • pineapple weed — an Asian plant, Matricaria matricarioides, naturalized in Europe and North America, having greenish-yellow flower heads, and smelling of pineapple when crushed: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • pinxter flower — a variety of azalea (Rhododendron nudiflorum) with pink, sweet-smelling flowers, purplish-red at the base
  • policy wording — Policy wording is the terms and conditions and definitions of insurance coverage as they are written down in the insurance policy.
  • popcorn flower — a plant, Plagiobothrys nothofulvus, of the borage family, native to the western U.S., having coiled clusters of small white flowers.
  • porcelain ware — articles made of porcelain, such as plates and cups
  • postnatal ward — a ward in a hospital where women and their babies are provided with medical care immediately after the birth of the baby
  • potential flow — Potential flow is a way of describing flow in a fluid using streamlines.
  • potential well — a localized region in a field of force in which the potential has a deep minimum
  • prawn cocktail — A prawn cocktail is a dish that consists of prawns, salad, and a sauce. It is usually eaten at the beginning of a meal.
  • preventive law — consultation, as between lawyer and client, to prevent future litigation by dispensing legal advice, clarifying the terms of a contract, etc.
  • 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.
  • pull-down menu — (operating system)   (Or "drop-down menu", "pop-down menu") A menu in a graphical user interface, whose title is normally visible but whose contents are revealed only when the user activates it, normally by pressing the mouse button while the pointer is over the title, whereupon the menu items appear below the title. The user may then select an item from the menu or click elsewhere, in either case the menu contents are hidden again. A menu item is selected either by dragging the mouse from the menu title to the item and releasing or by clicking the title and then the item. When a pull-down menu appears in the main area of a window, as opposed to the menu bar, it may have a small, downward-pointing triangle to the right. Compare: scrollable list.
  • push down list — (programming)   (PDL) In ITS days, the preferred MITism for stack. See overflow pdl.
  • rip van winkle — (in a story by Washington Irving) a ne'er-do-well who sleeps 20 years and upon waking is startled to find how much the world has changed.

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