10-letter words containing w, o, n, d
- wandsworth — a borough of Greater London, England.
- ward round — a regular visit to patients in hospital by medical staff for the purpose of making decisions concerning patient care
- wardrobing — a stock of clothes or costumes, as of a person or of a theatrical company.
- warlording — (Internet) The act of denouncing, dissecting or mocking bloated signature blocks in Usenet postings.
- water down — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
- weapon dog — a dog, esp. a bulldog or pit bull terrier, kept as a pet and trained to intimidate and attack others
- weaponized — Made into, or to serve as, a weapon.
- weigh down — to determine or ascertain the force that gravitation exerts upon (a person or thing) by use of a balance, scale, or other mechanical device: to weigh oneself; to weigh potatoes; to weigh gases.
- well-doing — good conduct or action.
- well-found — well-furnished with supplies, necessaries, etc.: a well-found ship.
- well-noted — well-known; celebrated; famous: a noted scholar.
- well-toned — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.
- whip-round — When a group of people have a whip-round, money is collected from each person so that it can be used to buy something for all of them or for someone they all know.
- whitmonday — the Monday following Whitsunday.
- whodunnits — Plural form of whodunnit.
- whorehound — (US, vulgar, slang) Someone who often has sex with prostitutes.
- willendorf — a village in NE Austria, near Krems: site of an Aurignacian settlement where a 4½ inches (11 cm) limestone statuette (Venus of Willendorf) was found.
- willingdon — Freeman Freeman-Thomas [free-muh n-tom-uh s] /ˈfri mənˈtɒm əs/ (Show IPA), 1st Marquis of, 1866–1941, British colonial official: governor general of Canada 1926–31; viceroy and governor general of India 1931–36.
- wilson dam — a dam on the Tennessee River, in NW Alabama, at Muscle Shoals: a part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. 4862 feet (1482 meters) long; 137 feet (42 meters) high.
- wind colic — flatulence caused by gases that result from the eating of fermenting vegetation; bloat.
- wind poppy — a Californian plant, Stylomecon heterophylla, of the poppy family, having satiny, brick-red flowers with purple centers.
- wind power — power derived from wind: used to generate electricity or mechanical power.
- wind-blown — You can use wind-blown to indicate that something has been blown from one place to another by the wind.
- wind-borne — carried by the wind, as pollen or seed.
- windflower — any plant belonging to the genus Anemone, of the buttercup family, having divided leaves and showy, solitary flowers.
- windhovers — Plural form of windhover.
- window box — a box for growing plants, placed at or in a window.
- window ram — Window Random Access Memory
- window tax — a tax on windows in houses levied between 1696 and 1851
- windowless — an opening in the wall of a building, the side of a vehicle, etc., for the admission of air or light, or both, commonly fitted with a frame in which are set movable sashes containing panes of glass.
- windowpane — a plate of glass for filling a window sash within the frame.
- windows 2k — Windows 2000
- windows 94 — (operating system, humour) A facetious name for Windows 95, so called because it was originally meant to ship in 1994.
- windows 95 — (operating system) (Win95) Microsoft's successor to their Windows 3.11 operating system for IBM PCs. It was known as "Chicago" during development. Its release was originally scheduled for late 1994 but eventually happened on 11 Jul 1995, followed by Service Release 1 on 1995-12-31 and OSR2 (OEM Service Release 2) on 1996-08-24. In contrast to earlier versions, Windows 95 is a complete operating system rather than a graphical user interface running on top of MS-DOS. It provides 32-bit application support, pre-emptive multitasking, threading and built-in networking (TCP/IP, IPX, SLIP, PPP, and Windows Sockets). It includes MS-DOS 7.0, but takes over completely after booting. The graphical user interface, while similar to previous Windows versions, is significantly improved. Windows 95 has also been described as "32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1-bit of competition". The successor to Windows 95 was Windows 98.
- windows 98 — (operating system) Microsoft's 1998 update to Windows 95 that adds: * Hardware support for Universal Serial Bus (USB). * Internet Connection Sharing (IGC) - multiple PCs share a single connection to the Internet. * Microsoft WebTV for Windows - watch TV on your PC. * Support for new graphic, sound, and multimedia formats. * Internet Explorer release 5. * Windows 98 Service Pack - year 2000 updates. Windows 98 was followed logically by Windows ME but chronologically by Windows 2000 Professional Edition.
- windows 9x — (operating system) A shorthand meaning Windows 95 or Windows 98.
- windows ce — (operating system) /C E/ A version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that is being used in a variety of embedded products, from handheld PCs to specialised industrial controllers and consumer electronic devices. Programming for Windows CE is similar to programming for other Win32 platforms. Windows CE was developed to be a customisable operating system for embedded applications. Its kernel borrows much from other Microsoft 32-bit operating systems, while eliminating (or replacing) those operating system features that are not needed for typical Windows CE-based applications. For example, as on Windows NT, all applications running on Windows CE run in a fully preemptive multitasking environment, in fully protected memory spaces. The Win32 (API) for Windows CE is smaller than the Win32 API for the other 32-bit Windows operating systems. It includes approximately half the interface methods of the Windows NT version of the API. But the Win32 API for Windows CE also includes features found in no other Microsoft operating system. The notification API, for example, makes it possible to handle user or application notification events (such as timer events) at the operating-system level, rather than in a running application. The touch screen API and the built-in support for the Windows CE database are not found in other Windows operating systems. The touch screen API makes it easy to manage screen calibration and user interactions for touch-sensitive displays, while the database API provides access to a data storage facility.
- windows me — Windows Millennium Edition
- windows nt — (operating system) (Windows New Technology, NT) Microsoft's 32-bit operating system developed from what was originally intended to be OS/2 3.0 before Microsoft and IBM ceased joint development of OS/2. NT was designed for high end workstations (Windows NT 3.1), servers (Windows NT 3.1 Advanced Server), and corporate networks (NT 4.0 Enterprise Server). The first release was Windows NT 3.1. Unlike Windows 3.1, which was a graphical environment that ran on top of MS-DOS, Windows NT is a complete operating system. To the user it looks like Windows 3.1, but it has true multi-threading, built in networking, security, and memory protection. It is based on a microkernel, with 32-bit addressing for up to 4Gb of RAM, virtualised hardware access to fully protect applications, installable file systems, such as FAT, HPFS and NTFS, built-in networking, multi-processor support, and C2 security. NT is also designed to be hardware independent. Once the machine specific part - the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) - has been ported to a particular machine, the rest of the operating system should theorertically compile without alteration. A version of NT for DEC's Alpha machines was planned (September 1993). NT needs a fast 386 or equivalent, at least 12MB of RAM (preferably 16MB) and at least 75MB of free disk space. NT 4.0 was followed by Windows 2000.
- windows xp — (operating system) The version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that, when it was released on 2001-10-25, finally merged the Windows 95 - Windows ME strain with the Windows NT - Windows 2000 one. XP comes in two main versions: Windows XP Professional Edition and a simplified subset for home users, Windows XP Home Edition.
- windowsill — the sill under a window.
- windstorms — Plural form of windstorm.
- winsorized — Simple past tense and past participle of winsorize.
- withholden — withheld
- woadwaxens — Plural form of woadwaxen.
- wolfhounds — Plural form of wolfhound.
- wonder boy — a young man who is unusually successful or especially popular.
- wonderfull — Archaic spelling of wonderful.
- wondergoal — (sport) An excellent goal.
- wonderland — a land of wonders or marvels.