22-letter words containing a, c, e, s, r
- video graphics adaptor — Video Graphics Array
- videocassette recorder — See VCR.
- washington court house — a city in SW Ohio.
- wear out one's welcome — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- west greenland current — an ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Greenland.
- what's the difference? — what does it matter?
- white australia policy — an unofficial term for an immigration policy designed to restrict the entry of non-White people into Australia
- whitworth screw thread — a thread form and system of standard sizes, proposed by Whitworth in 1841 and adopted as standard in the U.K., having a flank angle of 55° and a rounded top and foot
- wi-fi protected access — (networking, security) (WPA) A security scheme for wireless networks, developed by the networking industry in response to the shortcomings of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption and provides built-in authentication, giving security comparable to VPN tunneling with WEP, with the benefit of easier administration and use.
- william's bon chrétien — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
- wolfram research, inc. — (company) The company founded by Stephen Wolfram in August 1987 to develop Mathematica which was released in June 1988 for the Macintosh and is now available on over 20 platforms. The company has offices in the United Kingdom and Tokyo, Japan. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- wolfram von eschenbach — c1170–c1220, German poet.
- workmen's compensation — compensation for death, injury, or accident suffered by a workman in the course of his employment and paid to him or his dependents
- yellow-shafted flicker — a North American woodpecker C. auratus, which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail