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14-letter words containing w, r

  • dress-down day — a day on which employees are allowed to wear informal clothing
  • drinking straw — thin plastic tube for sucking up liquids
  • drinking water — water that is safe to drink
  • 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 white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • 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.
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwarf fan palm — a small palm, Chamaedorea elegans, native to Central America, having a reedlike stem and long, pointed leaflets, widely cultivated as a houseplant.
  • dwarf palmetto — an apparently stemless palm, Sabal minor, of the southeastern U.S., having stiff, bluish-green leaves, the leafstalks arising from the ground.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • 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
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
  • escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • exit interview — an interview held with an employee who is leaving an organization in order to learn the employee's opinion of his or her time spent at the organization, reasons for departure, etc
  • expert witness — In a court case, an expert witness is someone such as a doctor or other professional who testifies about and gives opinions on subjects and issues that have been raised in the particular court case.
  • eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
  • factory worker — manufacturing labourer
  • fair-trade law — a state or federal law authorizing fair-trade agreements: repealed 1975.
  • fall army worm — the caterpillar of a widely distributed noctuid moth, Spodoptera frugiperda, which travels in vast hordes and is a serious pest of cereal crops in tropical regions of the western hemisphere
  • fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • feature writer — a newspaper or magazine journalist who writes feature articles
  • 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.
  • figwort family — the plant family Scrophulariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having alternate or opposite leaves, often showy two-lipped or irregular flowers, fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the figwort, foxglove, Indian paintbrush, mullein, speedwell, and snapdragon.
  • fireworks mode — The mode a machine is sometimes said to be in when it is performing a crash and burn operation.
  • flannel flower — any Australian plant of the umbelliferous genus Actinotus having white flannel-like bracts beneath the flowers
  • flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
  • flower-of-jove — a white, woolly plant, Lychnis flos-jovis, of the pink family, having red or purple flowers in dense clusters.
  • 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.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • 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.
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