"explanatory words" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to words or phrases that are used to clarify or provide additional information about a subject or statement. Example: The speaker used a lot of explanatory words to help the audience understand the complex topic.
The vast majority of strategic plans that I have seen over 30 years of working in the strategy realm are simply budgets with lots of explanatory words attached.
As this idea may not flow very smoothly through the logic buffer of you, the discriminating historian, a few explanatory words are in order here.
It addresses whether, and to what degree, design research ought to rely on explanatory words as its principal medium of research, or whether it is valid to substitute artifactual creation for intellectual explanation in the research process.
In the explanatory words of its founder, the architect Walter Gropius, "The approach to any kind of design a chair, a building, a whole town or a regional plan should be essentially identical".
The worry over both the Leveson conclusions and the Filkin report is that officers who would once have had a quiet off-the-record chat at a crime scene, a coffee after a press conference or a couple of explanatory words outside a court will now button their lips.
On the other hand, a performance piece (a demonstration? a march?) organized in Tirana, Albania, in 2003 by Mircea Cantor, with participants carrying large mirrors instead of placards, is such a suggestive visual knockout that it needs no explanatory words beyond its title, "The Landscape Is Changing".
Advanced traffic control signs can have self-explanatory words or other signs in a yellow, diamond-shaped sign.
The cover of the May 10 , 1993 Newsweek printed one large, self-explanatory word across Sead Bekric's injured chest: "Bosnia". By then, Tony Maglica already was involved.
On one side, we have linguistic definitions, which attempt to characterize the notion of word by illustrating the explanatory role words play or are expected to play in the context of a formal grammar.
Often in books edited for a student audience, the editors will include explanatory footnotes, word definitions, and other aids that can help you grasp what's going on.
The show is almost entirely devoid of explanatory texts; whatever words appear on the walls are Klein's own.
