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22-letter words containing i, n, w, t, h, r

  • a name to conjure with — If you say that the name of a particular person or organization is a name to conjure with, you mean that that person or organization is very important and influential in the field you are discussing.
  • alfred north whiteheadAlfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
  • bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
  • chinese water chestnut — a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
  • covered with confusion — greatly embarrassed
  • damn with faint praise — If someone damns something with faint praise, they say something about it which sounds quite nice but is not enthusiastic, and shows that they do not have a high opinion of it.
  • dashing white sergeant — a lively Scottish dance for sets of six people
  • 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.
  • 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
  • give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
  • give someone the works — to murder someone
  • give something a whirl — to attempt or give a trial to something
  • governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
  • graph rewriting system — An extension of a term rewriting system which uses graph reduction on terms represented by directed graphs to avoid duplication of work by sharing expressions.
  • halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
  • hawaiian standard time — the time used in the Hawaiian time zone
  • help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
  • highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
  • in/within sb's hearing — If someone says something in your hearing or within your hearing, you can hear what they say because they are with you or near you.
  • 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.
  • label switching router — (networking)   (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
  • name service switching — Domain Name System
  • netherlands new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
  • nigger in the woodpile — a hidden snag or hindrance
  • north rhine-westphalia — a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf.
  • oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
  • peanut-butter sandwich — a sandwich with a filling of peanut-butter
  • read between the lines — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • sb can whistle for sth — If you say that someone can whistle for a particular thing, you mean that you are not willing or able to give it to them.
  • search the fucking web — (web, jargon)   (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
  • self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
  • sell sb down the river — If someone sells you down the river, they betray you for some personal profit or advantage.
  • special drawing rights — the reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund on which member nations may draw in proportion to their contribution to the Fund
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).
  • to whom it may concern — salutation in a letter
  • twenty-third amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1961, allowing District of Columbia residents to vote in presidential elections.
  • vibration white finger — a condition affecting workers using vibrating machinery, which causes damage to the blood vessels and nerves of the fingers and leads to a permanent loss of feeling
  • wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
  • washington court house — a city in SW Ohio.
  • water under the bridge — If you say that an event or incident is water under the bridge, you mean that it has happened and cannot now be changed, so there is no point in worrying about it any more.
  • what's the difference? — what does it matter?
  • where the shoe pinches — the source of trouble, grief, difficulty, etc.
  • william's bon chrétien — a variety of pear that has large yellow juicy sweet fruit
  • with all the trimmings — if you say that something comes with all the trimmings, you mean that it has many extra things added to it to make it more special
  • within someone's grasp — If you say that something is within someone's grasp, you mean that it is very likely that they will achieve it.
  • wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
  • zero population growth — the maintenance of a population at a constant level by limiting the number of live births to that needed to replace the existing population.

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