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17-letter words containing d, w, e

  • japanese knotweed — Mexican bamboo.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • knowledge economy — an economy in which information services are dominant as an area of growth
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lake of the woods — Eldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
  • mid-level network — (Or "regional network"). The kind of networks which make up the second level of the Internet hierarchy. They are the transit networks which connect the stub networks to the backbone networks.
  • middle low german — Low German of the period c1100–c1500.
  • middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
  • most well studied — marked by or suggestive of conscious effort; not spontaneous or natural; affected: studied simplicity.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • neck of the woods — the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • new england aster — a tall composite plant, Aster novae-angliae, of the northeastern U.S., the flowers of which have lavender to deep-purple rays.
  • new england range — a plateau in New South Wales in SE Australia, in the Great Dividing Range, rising to 5000 feet (1524 meters).
  • new guinea pidgin — the variety of Neo-Melanesian spoken in Papua New Guinea and neighbouring islands
  • new scotland yard — See under Scotland Yard (def 1).
  • newcastle disease — a rapidly spreading virus-induced disease of birds and domestic fowl, as chickens, marked by respiratory difficulty, reduced egg production and, in chicks, paralysis.
  • newfoundland time — a form of civil time observed on the island of Newfoundland, one and one-half hours later than Eastern time and a half hour later than Atlantic time.
  • nine days' wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
  • ninety-day wonder — an officer commissioned in a branch of the armed forces after an unusually short training period, especially after a three-months officers' training course during World War II.
  • number three wood — spoon (def 5).
  • old wives' summer — a period of fine, summerlike weather occurring in Europe in autumn.
  • one-time password — (security)   (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
  • out of the window — dispensed with; disregarded
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • pressure drawdown — Pressure drawdown is the difference between the reservoir pressure and the flowing wellbore pressure, which drives fluids from the reservoir into the wellbore.
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • read-write memory — a type of computer memory that you can write to as well as read from
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • ready and waiting — If you want to emphasize that a person is properly prepared for something, or that something can now be used, you can say that they are ready and waiting.
  • red-osier dogwood — Also called red-osier dogwood. a North American dogwood, Cornus sericea (or C. stolonifera), having red twigs and branches and white fruits.
  • roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • sb could do worse — If you tell someone that they could do worse than do a particular thing, you are advising them that it would be quite a good thing to do.
  • scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • 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.
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
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