14-letter words containing w
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- diamond willow — wood that may come from any species of willow and has a diamond pattern in the grain, used for making walking sticks, table lamps, etc
- digital wallet — an electronic device, website, software system, or database that facilitates commercial transactions by storing a consumer's credit card, shipping address, and other payment data.
- dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disembowelling — (chiefly, British) present participle of disembowel.
- disembowelment — to remove the bowels or entrails from; eviscerate.
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- display window — shop window displaying goods
- 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 family — the plant family Cornaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, small flowers often surrounded by showy, petallike bracts, and berrylike fruit, including the bunchberry, cornelian cherry, and dogwood.
- dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
- double wedding — a wedding in which two couples marry
- dover's powder — a powder containing ipecac and opium, used as an anodyne, diaphoretic, and antispasmodic.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- 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 the hatch — drinks toast
- down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
- 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.
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- 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.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- draw-out table — draw table.
- draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- 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.