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17-letter words containing n, o, w, e, b

  • agenbite of inwit — remorse of conscience
  • american woodbine — a North American plant, related to the honeysuckle, Lonicera caprifolium
  • audubon's warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
  • be one's own boss — If you are your own boss, you work for yourself or make your own decisions and do not have anyone telling you what to do.
  • be your own woman — If you say that a woman is her own woman, you approve of the fact that she makes her plans and decisions herself, and does not depend on other people.
  • between ourselves — in confidence; as a secret
  • between two fires — between two attacks; shot at, criticized, etc. from both sides
  • biological weapon — a weapon which uses a biological agent to harm people and other living organisms
  • blow someone away — to kill by shooting
  • blowout preventer — A blowout preventer is a valve that can be closed when there is uncontrolled flow of fluids.
  • blowpipe analysis — a type of chemical analysis in which the intensely hot flame of a blowpipe vaporizes a mineral or other substance with a characteristically colored flame and a unique odor, so as to identify chemical elements in a substance
  • bone marrow donor — a person who donates bone marrow
  • bow street runner — (in Britain from 1749 to 1829) an officer at Bow Street magistrates' court, London, whose duty was to pursue and arrest criminals
  • bowel obstruction — a blockage in the bowel
  • breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
  • breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
  • broad-winged hawk — an American hawk, Buteo platypterus, dark brown above and white barred with rufous below.
  • broken white line — a regular, discontinuous white line on a roadway, indicating that overtaking is permitted
  • brownian movement — random movement of microscopic particles suspended in a fluid, caused by bombardment of the particles by molecules of the fluid. First observed in 1827, it provided strong evidence in support of the kinetic theory of molecules
  • browserconfig.xml — (web)   A Microsoft configuration file used to customise the appearance and behaviour of website links pinned to the Windows start screen or desktop taskbar. browserconfig.xml allows the site owner to specify things like badges and tile images.
  • bull's-eye window — bull's-eye (def 7).
  • canarybird flower — a nasturtium, Tropaeolum peregrinum, of Peru, having round, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers.
  • downwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • downwardly-mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
  • drive-by download — an incidence of an unwanted program being automatically downloaded to a computer, often without the user's knowledge
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • into one's barrow — suited to one's interests or desires
  • 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).
  • know only by name — to be familiar with the name of but not know personally
  • knowledgeableness — The state, quality, or measure of being knowledgeable; wisdom.
  • learned borrowing — a word or other linguistic form borrowed from a classical language into a modern language.
  • move one's bowels — to pass waste matter from the large intestine; defecate
  • nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
  • northern bobwhite — any of several American quail of the genus Colinus, especially C. virginianus (northern bobwhite) having mottled reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
  • northwest by west — a point on the compass, 11°15′ west of northwest. Abbreviation: NWbW.
  • number three wood — spoon (def 5).
  • observation tower — lookout, observation point
  • off one's own bat — If someone does something off their own bat, they do it without anyone else suggesting it.
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • 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.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • to get to know sb — If you get to know someone, you find out what they are like by spending time with them.
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).

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