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17-letter words containing d, i, w

  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • secondary winding — A secondary winding is the winding of a transformer that receives its energy by electromagnetic induction from the primary winding.
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • st. swithin's day — July 15, superstitiously regarded as a day that, should it rain or be fair, will be followed by 40 consecutive days of like weather.
  • straw in the wind — If you say that an incident or piece of news is a straw in the wind, you mean that it gives an indication of what might happen in the future.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • tilt at windmills — to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.
  • to win hands down — If you win hands down, you win very easily.
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • unlawful wounding — an offence committed when a person maliciously wounds another person
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
  • waiting for godot — a play (1952) by Samuel Beckett.
  • wallis and futuna — French overseas territory in the South Pacific, northeast of the Fiji Islands: it consists of two groups of islands (Wallis Islands and Futuna Islands): c. 106 sq mi (275 sq km); pop. 14,000
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
  • washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • wedding reception — party after a marriage
  • weigh one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
  • well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • well-proportioned — adjusted to proper proportion or relation.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • white blood cells — any of various nearly colorless cells of the immune system that circulate mainly in the blood and lymph and participate in reactions to invading microorganisms or foreign particles, comprising the B cells, T cells, macrophages, monocytes, and granulocytes.
  • white book cd-rom — (hardware, standard)   A more open CD-ROM standard than Green Book CD-ROM. All films mastered on CD-ROM after March 1994 use White Book. Like Green Book, it is ISO 9660 compliant, uses mode 2 form 2 addressing and can only be played on a CD-ROM drive which is XA (Extended Architecture) compatible. White book CDs are labelled "Video CD".
  • white-tailed deer — a common North American deer, Odocoileus virginianus, having a tail with a white underside.
  • white-tailed kite — an American kite, Elanus leucurus, having gray plumage with a white head, breast, and tail.
  • white-winged dove — a common dove, Zenaida asiatica, of the southwestern U.S. to Chile.
  • wide area network — a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area.
  • wide-area network — a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area.
  • wild sarsaparilla — a low plant, Aralia nudicaulis, of the ginseng family, native to eastern North America, having a single, long-stalked, compound leaf and a ball-like cluster of greenish-yellow flowers.
  • wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
  • wild sweet potato — man-of-the-earth.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • wind chill factor — A wind chill factor is a measure of the cooling effect of the wind on the temperature of the air.
  • wind-chill factor — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
  • winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • windscreen washer — a small nozzle on the bonnet of a motor vehicle, from which jets of water are squirted electronically onto the windscreen to help clean it
  • wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
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