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17-letter words containing i, n, w, t, h, s

  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • boatswain's chair — a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging
  • character witness — a witness in a trial who testifies to the accused's general good character rather than providing evidence about the specific offence which has led to him or her being on trial
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • circuit switching — (communications)   Communication via a single dedicated path between the sender and receiver. The telephone system is an example of a circuit switched network. The term connection-oriented is used in packet-based networks in contrast to connectionless communication or packet switching.
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dutch west indies — a Netherlands overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea, N and NE of Venezuela; includes the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, and St. Eustatius, and the S part of St. Martin: considered an integral part of the Dutch realm. 366 sq. mi. (948 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
  • east renfrewshire — a council area of W central Scotland, comprising part of the historical county of Renfrewshire; part of Strathclyde region from 1975 to 1996: chiefly agricultural and residential. Administrative centre: Giffnock. Pop: 89 680 (2003 est). Area: 173 sq km (67 sq miles)
  • eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
  • 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.
  • go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
  • jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
  • john wilkes booth — Ballington [bal-ing-tuh n] /ˈbæl ɪŋ tən/ (Show IPA), 1859–1940, founder of the Volunteers of America 1896 (son of William Booth).
  • light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
  • mann-whitney test — a statistical test of the difference between the distributions of data collected in two experimental conditions applied to unmatched groups of subjects but comparing the distributions of the ranks of the scores
  • message switching — store and forward
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • saint john's wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
  • sawatch mountains — range of the Rocky Mountains, in central Colo.: highest peak, Elbert
  • show in (or out) — to usher into (or out of) a given place
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • 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
  • swainson's thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus ustulatus, having olive upper parts and wintering south to Argentina.
  • switching station — A switching station is equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • to win hands down — If you win hands down, you win very easily.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • weather-resistant — resisting the effects of severe weather, as rain or cold: weather-resistant cloth for topcoats.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • wet one's whistle — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.

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