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22-letter words containing c, r, w, t

  • the french west indies — various islands in the Lesser Antilles, administered by France; chiefly Guadeloupe, Martinique, Saint-Barthélemy and the French part of Saint Martin. Pop: 838 000 (2004 est). Area: 2792 sq km (1077 sq miles)
  • throw on the scrapheap — to discard or get rid of as useless
  • to bend over backwards — If you say that someone is bending over backwards to be helpful or kind, you are emphasizing that they are trying very hard to be helpful or kind.
  • to cast your net wider — If you cast your net wider, you look for or consider a greater variety of things.
  • to get/be carried away — If you get carried away or are carried away, you are so eager or excited about something that you do something hasty or foolish.
  • to whom it may concern — salutation in a letter
  • unconventional warfare — warfare that is conducted within enemy lines through guerrilla tactics or subversion, usually supported at least in part by external forces.
  • unwritten constitution — a constitution, as in Great Britain, not codified as a document but defined by custom and precedent as embodied in statutes and judicial decisions.
  • user network interface — (communications, networking)   (UNI) An interface point between ATM end users and a private ATM switch, or between a private ATM switch and the public carrier ATM network. The physical and protocol specifications for UNIs are defined by the ATM Forum's UNI documents, which allow for various types of physical interfaces. See also: NNI
  • 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?
  • where the shoe pinches — the source of trouble, grief, difficulty, etc.
  • whitchurch-stouffville — a town in SW Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
  • 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
  • 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
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • xerox network services — (networking)   (XNS)
  • yellow-shafted flicker — a North American woodpecker C. auratus, which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail
  • your neck of the woods — Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.
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