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16-letter words containing w, n, p

  • american cowslip — shooting star (def 2).
  • ancestor worship — (in certain societies) the veneration of ancestors whose spirits are frequently held to possess the power to influence the affairs of the living.
  • balance of power — The balance of power is the way in which power is distributed between rival groups or countries.
  • bargaining power — the ability of a person, group, or organization to exert influence over another party in a negotiation in order to achieve a deal which is favourable to themselves
  • bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
  • boatswain's pipe — a whistle used formerly to give orders on board ship
  • bound up in/with — If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
  • bowman's capsule — a membranous, double-walled capsule surrounding a glomerulus of a nephron.
  • chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
  • chinese whispers — a game in which a message is passed on, in a whisper, by each of a number of people, so that the final version of the message is often radically changed from the original
  • chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
  • compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
  • computer network — network
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • development well — (in the oil industry) a well drilled for the production of oil or gas from a field already proven by appraisal drilling to be suitable for exploitation
  • dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
  • downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
  • drop (down) dead — If you say that a person or animal dropped dead or dropped down dead, you mean that they died very suddenly and unexpectedly.
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
  • ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
  • emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
  • endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
  • exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • forward planning — business: making future provisions
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • hand screw clamp — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • implied warranty — a warranty not stated explicitly by the seller of merchandise or real property but presumed for reasons of commercial or legal custom (distinguished from express warranty).
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • in-law apartment — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • jump up and down — bounce
  • keep under wraps — not reveal
  • know one's place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
  • law of exponents — the theorem stating the elementary properties of exponents, as the property that the product of the same bases, each raised to an exponent, is equal to the base raised to the sum of the exponents: xa ⋅ xb = xa + b .
  • law of parsimony — a principle according to which an explanation of a thing or event is made with the fewest possible assumptions.
  • look up and down — to search everywhere
  • lower palatinate — See under Palatinate (def 1).
  • network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
  • network operator — (job)   A person who monitors and maintains the operation of a communications network. A network operator troubleshoots hardware (cables, routers, network switches, hubs, network adaptors), software, and transmission problems.
  • network provider — a business or organization that provides customers with access to a telecommunications network (esp mobile phone networks) or to the internet
  • network topology — (networking)   The "shape" of a network, how the nodes are connected to each other. Common topologies are bus network, star network and ring network.

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