17-letter words containing n, o, w, h, i
- at their own game — If you beat someone at their own game, you use the same methods that they have used, but more successfully, so that you gain an advantage over them.
- 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
- 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
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
- cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
- deepwater horizon — an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles (64km) south-east off the coast of Louisiana, that suffered a massive oil spill following an explosion in April 2010
- do your own thing — If you do your own thing, you live, act, or behave in the way you want to, without paying attention to convention or depending on other people.
- down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
- down-in-the-mouth — glum
- eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
- front-wheel drive — a drive system in which engine power is transmitted through the front wheels only.
- 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.
- get into bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
- go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
- great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
- guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
- hawking radiation — the emission of particles by a black hole. Pairs of virtual particles in the intense gravitational field around a black hole may live long enough for one to move outward when the other is pulled into the black hole, making it appear that the black hole is emitting radiation
- hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
- how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
- in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
- isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
- 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).
- julian of norwich — ?1342–?1413, English mystic and anchoress: best known for the Revelations of Divine Love describing her visions
- light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
- low-hanging fruit — the fruit that grows low on a tree and is therefore easy to reach
- middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
- minion of the law — a policeman.
- mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
- northern bobwhite — any of several American quail of the genus Colinus, especially C. virginianus (northern bobwhite) having mottled reddish-brown, black, and white plumage.
- out of the window — dispensed with; disregarded
- pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
- pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
- play along (with) — to join in or cooperate (with)
- 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
- prusso-danish war — a war of 1864 between Prussia and Denmark by which Denmark lost Schleswig-Holstein.
- pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
- roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
- russian wolfhound — borzoi.
- saint john's wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
- sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
- 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.
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