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22-letter words containing d, o, w, i, e

  • alfred north whiteheadAlfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
  • andrew jackson downingAndrew Jackson, 1815–52, U.S. landscape architect.
  • approved social worker — (in England) a qualified social worker specially trained in mental-health work, who is approved by his employing local authority to apply for a mentally disordered person to be admitted to hospital and detained there, or to apply for the person to be received into the guardianship of the local authority
  • blue-winged kookaburra — a related smaller bird D. Leachii, of tropical Australia and New Guinea
  • born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
  • bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
  • buffered write-through — (memory management)   A variation of write-through where the cache uses a "write buffer" to hold data being written back to main memory. This frees the cache to service read requests while the write is taking place. There is usually only one stage of buffering so subsequent writes must wait until the first is complete. Most accesses are reads so buffered write-through is only useful for very slow main memory.
  • come up with the goods — If you deliver the goods or come up with the goods, you do what is expected or required of you.
  • continuous welded rail — a long, continuous rail formed by welding many short rails.
  • covered with confusion — greatly embarrassed
  • cut one's wisdom teeth — to arrive at the age of discretion
  • days of wine and roses — a period of happiness and prosperity.
  • de broglie wave length — the postulate of wave mechanics that a particle of mass m moving at a velocity v will have the properties of a wave of wavelength h / mv (de Broglie wavelength) where h is Planck's constant.
  • dehiwala-mount lavinia — a city in SW Sri Lanka, on the Indian Ocean.
  • double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
  • flushed with something — very excited because of some success or triumph
  • fringed with something — having a specified thing around the edge
  • get (or have) wind of — to get (or have) information or a hint concerning; hear (or know) of
  • get a word in edgeways — to succeed in interrupting a conversation in which someone else is talking incessantly
  • get a word in edgewise — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
  • golden-crowned kinglet — a yellowish-green kinglet, Regulus satrapa, of North America, having a yellow or orange patch on the top of the head.
  • governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
  • handle with kid gloves — grant special treatment to
  • in one's own back yard — close at hand
  • in the eye of the wind — directly against the wind
  • in your wildest dreams — If you say that you could not imagine a particular thing in your wildest dreams, you are emphasizing that you think it is extremely strange or unlikely.
  • interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
  • joint academic network — (JANET) The wide area network which links UK academic and research institutes. JANET is controlled by the Joint Network Team (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is an internet (a large number of interconnected sub-networks) that provides connectivity within the community as well as access to external services and other communities. The hub is the JANET subnetwork, a private X.25 packet-switched network that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority of sites, local area networks (LANs) are connected to JANET allowing off-site access for the computers and terminals connected to these networks. The Coloured Book protocol architecture is used to support interactive terminal access to computers (for both character terminals and screen terminals), inter-host file transfers, electronic mail and remote batch job submission. See also JIPS, SuperJanet.
  • law of excluded middle — the principle that any proposition must be either true or false.
  • lower canada rebellion — an uprising of 1837, quickly crushed by the British militia, against the British colonial administration in Quebec.
  • merry wives of windsor — a comedy (1598–1602?) by Shakespeare.
  • mind your own business — an occupation, profession, or trade: His business is poultry farming.
  • mind-your-own-business — baby's-tears.
  • mohammed al-khawarizmi — Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi
  • network interface card — network interface controller
  • network node interface — (networking)   (NNI) The ATM Forum's specification for connections between network nodes. NNI makes network routing possible. It typically refers to backbone trunk connections between ATM switching equipment. See also: UNI.
  • nigger in the woodpile — a hidden snag or hindrance
  • nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
  • on a wing and a prayer — with only the slightest hope of succeeding
  • outside awareness port — (humour)   (OAP) A humorous IBM term for a window (the glass kind) rather than the GUI kind.
  • prince of wales island — the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago, in SE Alaska. 1500 sq. mi. (3990 sq. km).
  • public domain software — public domain
  • sail close to the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
  • sell sb down the river — If someone sells you down the river, they betray you for some personal profit or advantage.
  • the end of the rainbow — If you say that something is at the end of the rainbow, you mean that people want it but it is almost impossible to obtain or achieve.
  • to be knocked sideways — If you are knocked sideways by something, it makes you feel very surprised, confused, or upset.
  • to be mixed up with sb — if you are mixed up with someone, usually someone that other people disapprove of, you are emotionally or sexually involved with them
  • to cast your net wider — If you cast your net wider, you look for or consider a greater variety of things.
  • to draw someone's fire — If you draw fire from someone, you cause them to shoot at you, for example because they think that you are threatening them.
  • to fall by the wayside — If a person or plan falls by the wayside, they fail or stop before they complete what they set out to do.

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