16-letter words containing w, n

century meltdown — Year 2000
cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
chew the scenery — to overact, as in a play or film
chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
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
chinese windlass — differential windlass
chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
chinese wood oil — tung oil.
chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
combining weight — the atomic weight of an atom or radical divided by its valence.
common knowledge — something widely or generally known
commonwealth day — the anniversary of Queen Victoria's birth, May 24, celebrated (now on the second Monday in March) as a holiday in many parts of the Commonwealth
community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
computer network — network
conflict of laws — dissimilarity or discrepancy between the laws of different legal orders, such as states or nations, with regard to the applicable legal rules and principles in a matter that each legal order wishes to regulate.
conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
consumption weed — groundsel tree.
continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
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
curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
dagwood sandwich — a thick sandwich filled with a variety of meats, cheeses, dressings, and condiments.
darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
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
dick whittington — Richard ("Dick") 1358?–1423, English merchant and philanthropist: Lord Mayor of London 1398, 1406–07, 1419–20.
do business with — trade or deal with
down at the heel — with the heels of one's shoes in need of repair

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