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14-letter words containing w, r, o, n

  • crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
  • crowning glory — the greatest achievement
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
  • do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
  • do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
  • dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
  • down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
  • down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
  • downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
  • downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
  • downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
  • draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
  • draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drop-down list — pull-down list
  • drop-down menu — pull-down menu
  • drowned valley — a valley that, having been flooded by the sea, now exists as a bay or estuary.
  • dry-stone wall — A dry-stone wall is a wall that has been built by fitting stones together without using any cement.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dusting powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • dusting-powder — a powder used on the skin, especially to relieve irritation or absorb moisture.
  • edward yourdon — (person)   A software engineering consultant, widely known as the developer of the "Yourdon method" of structured systems analysis and design, as well as the co-developer of the Coad/Yourdon method of object-oriented analysis and design. He is also the editor of three software journals - American Programmer, Guerrilla Programmer, and Application Development Strategies - that analyse software technology trends and products in the United States and several other countries around the world. Ed Yourdon received a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from MIT, and has done graduate work at MIT and at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. He has been appointed an Honorary Professor of Information Technology at Universidad CAECE in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has received numerous honors and awards from other universities and professional societies around the world. He has worked in the computer industry for 30 years, including positions with DEC and General Electric. Earlier in his career, he worked on over 25 different mainframe computers, and was involved in a number of pioneering computer projects involving time-sharing and virtual memory. In 1974, he founded the consulting firm, Yourdon, Inc.. He is currently immersed in research in new developments in software engineering, such as object-oriented software development and system dynamics modelling. Ed Yourdon is the author of over 200 technical articles; he has also written 19 computer books, including a novel on computer crime and a book for the general public entitled Nations At Risk. His most recent books are Object-Oriented Systems Development (1994), Decline and Fall of the American Programmer (1992), Object-Oriented Design (1991), and Object-Oriented Analysis (1990). Several of his books have been translated into Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, Portugese, Dutch, French, German, and other languages, and his articles have appeared in virtually all of the major computer journals. He is a regular keynote speaker at major computer conferences around the world, and serves as the conference Chairman for Digital Consulting's SOFTWARE WORLD conference. He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union, and a member of the expert advisory panel on CASE acquisition for the U.S. Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon was born on a small planet at the edge of one of the distant red-shifted galaxies. He now lives in the Center of the Universe (New York City) with his wife, three children, and nine Macintosh computers, all of which are linked together through an Appletalk network.
  • electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • fellow servant — (under the fellow-servant rule) an employee working with another employee for the same employer.
  • fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
  • flowering moss — pyxie.
  • flowers of tan — a common slime mold, Fuligo septica, of the central and eastern U.S., having large sporophores and yellowish, foamy plasmodia, that during a wet growing season may spread to cover large areas of lawns, woody debris, and growing plants.
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • fortified wine — a wine, as port or sherry, to which brandy has been added in order to arrest fermentation or to increase the alcoholic content.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • freezing works — a slaughterhouse at which animal carcasses are frozen for export
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • front walkover — Racing. a walking or trotting over the course by a contestant who is the only starter.
  • frontierswoman — A woman living in the region of a frontier, especially that between settled and unsettled country.
  • frontierswomen — Plural form of frontierswoman.
  • garden webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
  • global warming — an increase in the earth's average atmospheric temperature that causes corresponding changes in climate and that may result from the greenhouse effect.
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • golden ragwort — any of various composite plants of the genus Senecio, as S. jacobaea, of the Old World, having yellow flowers and irregularly lobed leaves, or S. aureus (golden ragwort) of North America, also having yellow flowers.
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