16-letter words containing w, r, i
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- eastern whipbird — an Australian whipbird, Psophodes olivaceus
- eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- electrical power — electricity
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- exploration well — An exploration well is a borehole which is drilled to find out if there is any oil or gas in a place.
- fairview heights — a city in SW Illinois.
- federation wheat — an early-maturing drought-resistant variety of wheat developed by William Farrar in 1902
- find favour with — to be approved of by someone
- firewall machine — (networking, security) A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- first balkan war — Balkan War (def 1).
- first-aid worker — someone who is trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
- flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
- fool around with — have casual sex
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
- four-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted to all four wheels for improved traction.
- francis townsend — Francis Everett, 1867–1960, U.S. physician and proposer of the Townsend plan.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- friedrich wohler — Friedrich [free-drikh] /ˈfri drɪx/ (Show IPA), 1800–82, German chemist.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- 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.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
- growth potential — capability of expanding
- hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
- hang around with — to associate or socialize with
- hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
- have a word with — discuss
- hawaiian gardens — a town in SW California.
- hawksbill turtle — a sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, the shell of which is the source of tortoise shell: an endangered species.
- here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
- high wire artist — a performer of a high-wire act
- hit a brick wall — unable to continue or make progress because of a hindrance
- holographic will — a will that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator: in some states recognized as valid without the attestation of witnesses.
- hookworm disease — any of certain bloodsucking nematode worms, as Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus, parasitic in the intestine of humans and other animals.
- 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.
- hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
- house of worship — house of God.
- huyton-with-roby — an urban district in Merseyside, NW England, E of Liverpool.
- icterine warbler — a European variety of tree warbler (Hippolais icterina )
- if it wasn't for — If you talk about what would happen if it wasn't for someone or something, you mean that they are the only thing that is preventing it from happening.