14-letter words containing y, w, u
- a dusty answer — an unhelpful or bad-tempered reply
- albury-wodonga — a town in SE Australia, in S central New South Wales, on the Murray River: commercial centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 69 880 (2001)
- b power supply — Electronics. B supply.
- butterfly weed — a North American asclepiadaceous plant, Asclepias tuberosa (or A. decumbens), having flat-topped clusters of bright orange flowers
- c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- 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.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- get funny with — to be impudent to
- guy fawkes day — (in Britain) November 5, celebrating the anniversary of the capture of Guy Fawkes.
- haul your wind — to sail closer to the wind
- hemingwayesque — of, relating to, or characteristic of Ernest Hemingway or his works.
- how do you do? — a conventional formula when being introduced
- hungry viewkit — (operating system, library) A C++ class library for developing Motif application programs (although this restriction will be lifted once LessTif is finished). It follows the API of the Iris(tm) ViewKit, put out by SGI. The Hungry ViewKit is a superset of the Iris ViewKit, so any code developed for the Iris version will work with the Hungry version, but possibly not vice versa.
- just/you watch — You say to someone 'you watch' or 'just watch' when you are predicting that something will happen, and you are very confident that it will happen as you say.
- known quantity — Mathematics. a quantity whose value is given: in algebra, frequently represented by a letter from the first part of the alphabet, as a, b, or c.
- laundry worker — sb who washes clothes for a living
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- on the way out — If something or someone is on the way out or on their way out, they are likely to disappear or to be replaced very soon.
- out of the way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- out-of-the-way — remote from much-traveled, frequented, or populous regions; secluded: an out-of-the-way inn up in the hills.
- power industry — all the people and activities involved in providing power (gas, electricity, etc) to homes and businesses
- ruby-tail wasp — any of various brightly coloured wasps of the family Chrysididae, having a metallic sheen, which parasitize bees and other solitary wasps
- schwyzertutsch — any of the local dialects of German spoken in Switzerland.
- snowy mountain — of or relating to the Snowy Mountains of Australia or their inhabitants
- south-westerly — A south-westerly point, area, or direction is to the south-west or towards the south-west.
- three-way bulb — a light bulb that can be switched to three successive degrees of illumination.
- tuckaway table — a table having a support folding into one plane and a tilting or drop-leaf top.
- unlawful entry — clandestine, forced, or fraudulent entry into a premises, without the permission of its owner or occupant
- unpraiseworthy — not worthy of praise
- urban clearway — a stretch of road in an urban area on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- voluntary work — unpaid employment for a cause
- walkaround pay — extra pay earned by an employee for accompanying an official inspector on a plant tour or around a job site.
- well and truly — If you say that something is well and truly finished, gone, or done, you are emphasizing that it is completely finished or gone, or thoroughly done.
- whistling buoy — a buoy having a whistle operated by air trapped and compressed in an open-bottomed chamber by the rising and falling water level caused by natural wave action.
- white mulberry — See under mulberry (def 2).
- witchetty grub — the large white larva of any of several species of moth and beetle of Australia, especially of the moth genus Cossus, occurring in decaying wood and traditionally used as food by Aborigines.
- yellow puccoon — a plant, Lithospermum incisum, of central and western North America, having numerous branches and fringed yellow flowers.
- yellowfin tuna — an important food fish, Thunnus albacares, inhabiting warm seas.
- yom kippur war — a war that began on Yom Kippur in 1973 with the attack of Israel by Egypt, Syria, and Iraq: Israel recovered most of its initial losses.
- you don't know — You can say 'You don't know' in order to emphasize how strongly you feel about the remark you are going to make.
- you never know — You say 'You never know' or 'One never knows' to indicate that it is not definite or certain what will happen in the future, and to suggest that there is some hope that things will turn out well.
- you're welcome — You say 'You're welcome' to someone who has thanked you for something in order to acknowledge their thanks in a polite way.
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