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17-letter words containing l, w

  • pointer swizzling — swizzle
  • powder metallurgy — the art or science of manufacturing useful articles by compacting metal and other powders in a die, followed by sintering.
  • power supply unit — (hardware)   (PSU) An electronic module that converts high voltage (110 or 240 VAC) alternating current mains electricity into smoothed direct current at the various differnt voltages required by the motherboard; internal peripheral devices, cheifly storage devices: hard disks, CD or DVD, floppy disks and external connections such as USB. A PSU needs a high enough power output rating to supply all the devices connected to it and should output as little as possible electrical noise, both on the output wires and as electromagnetic radiation. See also uninterruptable power supply.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • quantum cell wire — (electronics, computing)   (Or "quantum wire", "binary wire") Quantum cells arranged in a line to carry signals. Adjacent cells with the same orientation are at a low energy state and a change of orientation at one end of a quantum wire propagates along the wire, transmitting a signal. However, unlike conventional wire, since only the orientation of charge pairs changes, no current flows. Circuits created using quantum cell wires are referred to as Quantum-dot Wireless Digital Circuits, see quantum dot, Quantum-dot Cellular Automata.
  • railway timetable — a list of railway journeys arranged according to the time when they begin and end
  • rainbow coalition — a political grouping together by several minority parties
  • reading knowledge — the ability to read a language, but not speak it
  • 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.
  • revolutionary war — American Revolution.
  • right-to-work law — a state law making it illegal to refuse employment to a person for the sole reason that he or she is not a union member.
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • 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.
  • row-level locking — (database)   A technique used in database management systems, where a row is locked for writing to prevent other users from accessing data being while it is being updated. Other techniques are table locking and MVCC.
  • run short/run low — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
  • russian wolfhound — borzoi.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • second balkan war — Balkan War (def 2).
  • self-acknowledged — widely recognized; generally accepted: an acknowledged authority on Chinese art.
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • sidesaddle flower — a pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • six o'clock swill — a period of heavy drinking, esp during the years when hotels had to close their bars at 6.00 p.m.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • slings and arrows — Slings and arrows are unpleasant things that happen to you and that are not your fault.
  • slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
  • small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • software platform — a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • stonewall jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • tell its own tale — to be self-evident
  • tennessee warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora peregrina, having a gray head, a greenish back, and white underparts.
  • 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 mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the lower regions — hell
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