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17-letter words containing n, o, r, w, e, s

  • 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.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • renaissance woman — a woman who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field.
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • 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.
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
  • sino-japanese war — the war (1894–95) between China and Japan over the control of Korea that resulted in the nominal independence of Korea and the Chinese cession to Japan of Formosa and the Pescadores.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • 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
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • spring cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • sword and sorcery — a genre of literature and film, usually set in days of old with magic as well as sword fighting
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • 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 do one's worst — If someone does their worst, they do everything unpleasant that they can possibly do. You can say 'do your worst' to show someone that you are not frightened of what they may do.
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • tower of strength — a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • turn of the screw — a short novel (1898) by Henry James.
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • twenty four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four hours — the time taken by the Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; a whole day
  • twenty-four seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • twenty-four-seven — continually; constantly: They're together 24/7.
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • warsaw convention — a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • weigh one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
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