17-letter words containing g, e, t, w, i, s
- answering pennant — one of the flags of the International Code of Signals, a pennant of three red and two white vertical stripes, flown at the dip while a message is being interpreted and close up when it is understood.
- broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
- go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
- great awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- hardware register — (hardware, system administration) (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
- high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
- immigrant workers — people who work in a country they arrived to in order to settle there
- ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
- may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
- message switching — store and forward
- newspaper cutting — clipping from a news publication
- pointer swizzling — swizzle
- pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
- singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
- social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
- software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the lower regions — hell
- tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
- top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
- turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
- 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 negotiations — talks between workers and employers over rates of pay
- wang laboratories — (body) Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
- well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
- wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
- working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
- wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.
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