Phrase Hound found 26 phrases and 11 compound words that contain wheeler. The most common are listed below. Open wheeler in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 26
- four-wheelerA horse-drawn hackney cab with four wheels, as opposed to a hansom or dogcart .
- wheeler-dealerA shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- two-wheelerA bicycle or motorbike.
- Wheeler CountyOne of 159 counties in Georgia, United States. County seat: Alamo. Named after Joseph Wheeler.
- Wheeler HeightsA suburb of Sydney in the Northern Beaches council area, New South Wales, Australia.
- ten-wheelerA steam locomotive of the 4-6-0 wheel arrangement.
- three-wheelerA car, cycle or motorbike having three wheels.
- Wheeler-DeWitt equationAn equation that attempts to meld the ideas of quantum mechanics and general relativity. It describes the quantum version of the Hamiltonian constraint using metric variables.
- Wheeler-Feynman absorber theoryAn interpretation of electrodynamics derived from the assumption that the solutions of the electromagnetic field equations must be invariant under time-reversal transformation, as are the field equations themselves.
- high-wheelerAn early car body style in the United States, derived from horse-drawn wagons, and typified by large-diameter slender wheels, frequently with solid rubber tires, to provide ample ground clearance on bumpy roads.
- side-wheelerAlternative spelling of sidewheeler: A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a pair of paddle wheels positioned one on each side
- stern-wheelerAlternative form of sternwheeler: A vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
- wheeler-dealersplural of wheeler-dealer: A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- eighteen-wheelerAlternative spelling of 18-wheeler.
- paddle wheelerAlternative form of paddlewheeler: A boat propelled by paddlewheel.
- single-wheelerA steam locomotive with a single driving axle.
- six-wheelerA vehicle of any type fitted with six wheels.
- wheeler-dealingThe act or practice of a wheeler-dealer.
- Burrows-Wheeler transformAn algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.
- Breit-Wheeler processA proposed physical process in which a positron-electron pair is created from the collision of two photons; the simplest mechanism by which pure light can be potentially transformed into matter.
- Breit-Wheeler pair productionSynonym of Breit-Wheeler process: A proposed physical process in which a positron-electron pair is created from the collision of two photons; the simplest mechanism by which pure light can be potentially transformed into matter.
- wheeler and dealerAlternative form of wheeler-dealer: A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- Everett-Wheeler telephoneA method of transmission of information between different quantum universes in branches of the quantum multiverse that exist after the creation of the telephone, in an MWI of quantum physics.
- Everett-Wheeler telephonesplural of Everett-Wheeler telephone: A method of transmission of information between different quantum universes in branches of the quantum multiverse that exist after the creation of the telephone, in an MWI of quantum physics.
- Burrows-Wheeler transformsplural of Burrows-Wheeler transform: An algorithm used in data compression that rearranges a character string into runs of similar characters.
Compound words 11
- BylerA surname.
- wheeleriteA yellowish fossil resin, associated with lignite, present in cretaceous strata of New Mexico
- sternwheelerA vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a single paddle wheel positioned at the stern
- sidewheelerA vessel (especially a paddle steamer) propelled by a pair of paddle wheels positioned one on each side
- cartwheelerOne who performs a cartwheel (gymnastic spinning manoeuvre).
- freewheelerA vehicle that can freewheel.
- wheelerdealerAlternative spelling of wheeler-dealer: A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- wheelerdealersplural of wheelerdealer: A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- WheelerianAn age from 1.9 to 0.01143 million years ago, a subdivision of the Pleistocene.
- wheeleriesplural of wheelery: A place where wheels or wheeled vehicles are manufactured or sold.