16-letter words containing ld
- the renosterveld — an area of high altitude in SW South Africa, having fertile ground
- this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
- to get cold feet — If you get cold feet about something, you become nervous or frightened about it because you think it will fail.
- to hold the fort — If you hold the fort for someone, or, in American English, if you hold down the fort, you look after things for them while they are somewhere else or are busy doing something else.
- to hold your own — If you hold your own, you are able to resist someone who is attacking or opposing you.
- to put it mildly — to state it with or as if with restraint
- tool builder kit — (tool) (TBK) A product from IPSYS which allows users to develop CASE tools appropriate to any software engineering methodology.
- transfer molding — a method of molding thermosetting plastic in which the plastic enters a closed mold from an adjoining chamber in which it has been softened.
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- way of the world — a comedy of manners (1700) by William Congreve.
- west springfield — a city in SW Massachusetts, near Springfield.
- wild goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
- wild-goose chase — a wild or absurd search for something nonexistent or unobtainable: a wild-goose chase looking for a building long demolished.
- windshield wiper — an electrically or pneumatically operated device consisting of a squeegee connected to a mechanical arm designed to wipe off rain, snow, etc., from a windshield or rear window.
- world bank group — the collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation, and the International Development Association, whose headquarters are all in Washington
- world exposition — world's fair.
- world federalism — federalism on a worldwide level.
- world federalist — a promoter or supporter of world federalism.
- would do well to — If you say that someone would do well to do something, you mean that you advise or recommend that they do it.
- yield management — the process of frequently adjusting the price of a product in response to various market factors, as demand or competition.