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16-letter words containing g, r, o, w

  • african wild dog — a mottled dog of Africa, Lycaon pictus
  • alligator wrench — a wrench having a V -shaped pair of serrated jaws set at right angles to the shank for turning cylindrical or irregularly shaped parts.
  • backward-looking — If you describe someone or something as backward-looking, you disapprove of their attitudes, ideas, or actions because they are based on old-fashioned opinions or methods.
  • bargaining power — the ability of a person, group, or organization to exert influence over another party in a negotiation in order to achieve a deal which is favourable to themselves
  • bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
  • bog whortleberry — a plant, Vaccinium uliginosum, of mountain regions, having pink flowers and black fruits
  • break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
  • carnal knowledge — Chiefly Law. sexual intercourse.
  • chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
  • dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
  • de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
  • developing world — Third World: poor countries
  • draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
  • drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
  • 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
  • fellow passenger — a person travelling on the same vehicle, plane, ship etc as you
  • flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
  • flowering quince — any shrub belonging to the genus Chaenomeles, of the rose family, native to eastern Asia, having showy, waxy flowers and a quincelike fruit, grown widely as an ornamental.
  • forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
  • forward exchange — a foreign bill purchased at a stipulated price and payable at a future date.
  • forward planning — business: making future provisions
  • forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
  • forwarding agent — freight forwarder.
  • friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
  • from the word go — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • gasoline-powered — using gasoline as fuel
  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • geothermal power — power generated using steam produced by heat emanating from the molten core of the earth
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • go with the turf — to be an unavoidable part of a particular situation or process
  • great horned owl — a large, brown-speckled owl, Bubo virginianus, common in the Western Hemisphere, having prominent ear tufts.
  • green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
  • gregory's powder — a formulation of rhubarb powder used as a laxative or purgative
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gum up the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hanging wardrobe — a wardrobe containing a rail with a large amount of space underneath, so that clothes can be hung on hangers placed onto the rail
  • here we go again — You use expressions such as 'here we go' and 'here we go again' in order to indicate that something is happening again in the way that you expected, especially something unpleasant.
  • holographic will — a will that is entirely in the handwriting of the testator: in some states recognized as valid without the attestation of witnesses.
  • hot cold-working — metalworking at considerable heat but below the temperature at which the metal recrystallizes: a form of cold-working.
  • immigration laws — regulations on incoming foreigners
  • in working order — fully functioning
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • jeweller's rouge — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide used as a metal polish

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