16-letter words containing w, y
- arthur wellesley — 1st Duke of (Arthur Wellesley"the Iron Duke") 1769–1852, British general and statesman, born in Ireland: prime minister 1828–30.
- away from sb/sth — If something is away from a person or place, it is at a distance from that person or place.
- berkeley network — (B-NET) Top level Unix Ethernet software developed at the University of California at Berkeley. There are no formal specifications but UCB's 4.2BSD Unix implementation on the VAX is the de facto standard. Distributed by Unisoft. Includes net.o driver routines for specific hardware, pseudo ttys, daemons, hostname command to set/get name, /etc/hosts database of names and Internet addresses of other hosts, /etc/hosts.equiv host-wide database to control remote access, .rhosts per user version of hosts.equiv. UCB's implementation of the Internet Protocol includes trailers to improve performance on paged memory management systems such as VAXen. These trailers are an exception to the Internet Protocol specification.
- birthwort family — the plant family Aristolochiaceae, typified by mostly tropical woody vines and herbaceous plants, having alternate, heart-shaped leaves and flowers lacking true petals but having three petallike sepals, and including the birthwort, Dutchman's-pipe, and wild ginger.
- bog whortleberry — a plant, Vaccinium uliginosum, of mountain regions, having pink flowers and black fruits
- boutique brewery — microbrewery.
- brown-eyed susan — a composite plant, Rudbeckia triloba, of the southeastern U.S., having a single flower with yellow rays darkening to an orange orbrown at the base and a brownish-black disk.
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
- butterfly flower — Also called Jerusalem date. a shrub or small tree, Bauhinia monandra, of French Guiana, having clusters of pink, purple-streaked flowers.
- by word of mouth — orally rather than by written means
- canada mayflower — a small wildflower (Maianthemum canadense) of the lily family, with white flowers and red, beadlike berries, found in the N U.S. and in Canada; bead-ruby
- cape may warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica tigrina, olive-green striped with black on the wings and back and yellow striped with black on the breast.
- cayenne software — (company) The company formed when CADRE merged with Bachman Information Systems in July 1996.
- century meltdown — Year 2000
- chew the scenery — to overact, as in a play or film
- clay-with-flints — a deposit of stiff clay containing unworn whole flints in the S England
- 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
- corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
- crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
- cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
- dafydd ap gwilym — ?1320–?1380, Welsh poet
- 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
- down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
- down one's alley — a passage, as through a continuous row of houses, permitting access from the street to backyards, garages, etc.
- downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- dual carriageway — divided highway.
- dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
- dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
- dyer's greenweed — woadwaxen.
- dyer's-greenweed — woadwaxen.
- east gwillimbury — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ebony spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium platyneuron, of woody areas of North America, having ladderlike leaves and shiny, dark brown stems.
- elevated railway — an urban railway track built on supports above a road
- emergency powers — special permission allowing a minister, government, etc to take action in an emergency without having to have their actions approved by parliament
- emergency worker — a person whose job is to help people in emergencies
- endowment policy — a document containing a record, and the terms and conditions of, an endowment mortgage.
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- eyebrow tweezers — small tweezers for plucking hairs out of your eyebrows
- family allowance — a regular government payment to the parents of children up to a certain age
- firework display — a public event at which fireworks are set alight
- follow-my-leader — a game in which the players must repeat the actions of the leader
- forward analysis — An analysis which determines properties of the output of a program from properties of the inputs.
- forward delivery — delivery at a future date.
- gay-lussac's law — the principle that, for relatively low pressures, the density of an ideal gas at constant pressure varies inversely with the absolute temperature of the gas.
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- go one's own way — If you go your own way, you do what you want rather than what everyone else does or expects.
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