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16-letter words containing u, n, w

  • ambulance worker — any person who works in the ambulance service
  • andrew tanenbaum — (person)   Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in The Netherlands. Tanenbaum is famous for his work and books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks. He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the International Standards Organisation, Open Systems Interconnection (ISO-OSI) network model. See Amoeba, Mac-1, Mic-1, Mic-2, Micro Assembly Language, MINIX, MicroProgramming Language, standard.
  • around the world — in many countries
  • australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
  • baron tweedsmuir — the title of Scottish novelist John Buchan
  • blue dawn-flower — a tropical American vine, Ipomoea acuminata, of the morning glory family, having large, funnel-shaped flowers that turn from blue to pink.
  • blue-winged teal — a small North American duck (Anas discors) found on ponds and rivers
  • bonded warehouse — a warehouse in which dutiable goods are deposited until duty is paid or the goods are cleared for export
  • bound up in/with — If one thing is bound up with or in another, they are closely connected with each other, and it is difficult to consider the two things separately.
  • bowman's capsule — a membranous, double-walled capsule surrounding a glomerulus of a nephron.
  • break new ground — to do something that has not been done before
  • brown house moth — a species of micro moth, Hofmannophila pseudospretella, which, although it usually inhabits birds' nests, sometimes enters houses where its larvae can be very destructive of stored fabrics and foodstuffs
  • 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.
  • bundled software — software sold as part of a package with computers or other hardware or software
  • burrowing blenny — graveldiver.
  • century meltdown — Year 2000
  • cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
  • community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
  • computer network — network
  • consumption weed — groundsel tree.
  • continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
  • counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
  • counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
  • cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
  • crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
  • crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
  • curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
  • curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
  • cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
  • cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
  • data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
  • do business with — trade or deal with
  • draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
  • dublin bay prawn — a large prawn usually used in a dish of scampi
  • dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
  • find favour with — to be approved of by someone
  • 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.
  • fool around with — have casual sex
  • functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
  • 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.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
  • guy fawkes night — In Britain, Guy Fawkes Night is the evening of 5th November, when many people have parties with bonfires and fireworks. It began as a way of remembering the attempt by Guy Fawkes to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Guy Fawkes Night is often referred to as 'Bonfire Night'.
  • hang around with — to associate or socialize with
  • hudsonian godwit — any of several large, widely distributed shorebirds of the genus Limosa, as the New World L. haemastica (Hudsonian godwit) having a long bill that curves upward slightly.
  • huyton-with-roby — an urban district in Merseyside, NW England, E of Liverpool.
  • if you must know — You say 'if you must know' when you tell someone something that you did not want them to know and you want to suggest that you think they were wrong to ask you about it.
  • in a brown study — in a reverie or daydream

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