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20-letter words containing a, w, o

  • get away from it all — If you get away from it all, you have a holiday in a place that is very different from where you normally live and work.
  • give a wide berth to — to keep clear of; avoid
  • go from bad to worse — worsen
  • greatest lower bound — a lower bound that is greater than or equal to all the lower bounds of a given set: 1 is the greatest lower bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3. Abbreviation: glb.
  • greenwich hour angle — hour angle measured from the meridian of Greenwich, England.
  • grey-crowned babbler — an insect-eating Australian bird, Pomatostomus temporalis of the family Timaliidae
  • hail-fellow-well-met — friendly but insincere
  • have come a long way — If you say that someone or something has come a long way, you mean that they have developed, progressed, or become very successful.
  • helmeted guinea fowl — the common guinea fowl in its wild state.
  • heston and isleworth — a former borough, now part of Hounslow, in SE England, near London.
  • holy water sprinkler — morning star (def 2).
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • how are you keeping? — how are you?
  • human growth hormone — somatotropin. Abbreviation: hGH.
  • hurricane-force wind — a wind, not necessarily a hurricane, having a speed of more than 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec): the strongest of the winds.
  • imported currantworm — the larva of any of several insects, as a sawfly, Nematus ribesii (imported currantworm) which infests and feeds on the leaves and fruit of currants.
  • in contact (with sb) — If you are in contact with someone, you regularly meet them or communicate with them.
  • indicated horsepower — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • junior featherweight — a boxer weighing up to 122 pounds (54.9 kg), between bantamweight and featherweight.
  • king's-pawn openings — a class of chess openings in which the pawn in front of the king is advanced two squares on the first move.
  • knock-down, drag-out — characterized by great violence, harshness, animosity, etc.
  • know all the answers — be opinionated
  • knowledge management — data technology
  • law of contradiction — the law that a proposition cannot be both true and false or that a thing cannot both have and not have a given property.
  • law of large numbers — the theorem in probability theory that the number of successes increases as the number of experiments increases and approximates the probability times the number of experiments for a large number of experiments.
  • law of superposition — Geology. a basic law of geochronology, stating that in any undisturbed sequence of rocks deposited in layers, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom, each layer being younger than the one beneath it and older than the one above it.
  • law-and-order issues — issues concerning law and social conventions
  • lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
  • llywelyn ap iorwerth — called Llywelyn the Great. died 1240, prince of Gwynedd, N Wales (1194–1238), who extended his rule over most of Wales
  • look homeward, angel — a novel (1929) by Thomas Wolfe.
  • lower layer protocol — (networking, protocol)   (LLP, or lower-layer protocol) Any protocol residing in OSI layers one to four. These protocols package, route, verify and transmit datagrams. A prime example would be TCP/IP. Lower layer protocols support the upper layer protocols.
  • lower yosemite falls — a section of Yosemite Falls in central California, in the Yosemite National Park, that is 98 m (320 ft) high
  • madwoman of chaillot — a satirical comedy (1945) by Jean Giraudoux.
  • medieval warm period — the time, c900–1400, during which warmer temperatures existed in many parts of the world. Abbreviation: MWP.
  • microcrystalline wax — Microcrystalline wax is a wax used as a stiffening agent and as a coating agent for tablets and capsules.
  • microwave background — a background of microwave electromagnetic radiation with a black-body spectrum discovered in 1965, understood to be the thermal remnant of the big bang with which the universe began
  • minkowski space-time — a four-dimensional space in which three coordinates specify the position of a point in space and the fourth represents the time at which an event occurred at that point
  • neighbourhood warden — a person employed by a local authority to patrol residential areas and deal with antisocial behaviour
  • network transparency — (networking)   A feature of an operating system or other service which lets the user access a remote resource through a network without having to know if the resource is remote or local. For example NFS allow users to access remote files as if they were local files.
  • new democratic party — the Canadian social democratic party formed in 1961
  • new england theology — Calvinism as modified and interpreted by the descendants of the Puritans in New England, especially Jonathan Edwards, becoming the dominant theology there from about 1730 to 1880.
  • no two ways about it — If you say that there are no two ways about it, you are emphasizing that there is no doubt at all about a particular situation or about how it should be interpreted.
  • northern white cedar — any of several chiefly coniferous trees valued for their wood, especially Chamaecyparis thyoides, of the eastern U.S., or Thuja occidentalis (northern white cedar) of northeastern North America.
  • norwegian forest cat — a breed of long-haired cat with a long bushy tail and a long mane
  • not put a foot wrong — If you never put a foot wrong, you never make any mistakes.
  • not worth the candle — not worth the price or trouble entailed (esp in the phrase the game's not worth the candle)
  • officer of the watch — the officer primarily responsible for the navigation of a ship, in the absence of the captain, during a certain watch.
  • old man of the woods — an edible, mild-tasting mushroom, Strobilomyces floccopus, occurring in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America.
  • on one's own account — If you take part in a business activity on your own account, you do it for yourself, and not as a representative or employee of a company.
  • on the drawing board — in the planning stage
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