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22-letter words containing n, o, w, h

  • (with) tongue in cheek — in a humorously ironic, mocking, or insincere way
  • a name to conjure with — If you say that the name of a particular person or organization is a name to conjure with, you mean that that person or organization is very important and influential in the field you are discussing.
  • alfred north whiteheadAlfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
  • bark up the wrong tree — to misdirect one's attention, efforts, etc; be mistaken
  • bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
  • cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
  • covered with confusion — greatly embarrassed
  • cut one's wisdom teeth — to arrive at the age of discretion
  • de broglie wave length — the postulate of wave mechanics that a particle of mass m moving at a velocity v will have the properties of a wave of wavelength h / mv (de Broglie wavelength) where h is Planck's constant.
  • dehiwala-mount lavinia — a city in SW Sri Lanka, on the Indian Ocean.
  • every now and then etc — You use every in the expressions every now and then, every now and again, every once in a while, and every so often in order to indicate that something happens occasionally.
  • flushed with something — very excited because of some success or triumph
  • fringed with something — having a specified thing around the edge
  • get (or have) wind of — to get (or have) information or a hint concerning; hear (or know) of
  • give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
  • give someone the works — to murder someone
  • give something a whirl — to attempt or give a trial to something
  • governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
  • halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
  • handle with kid gloves — grant special treatment to
  • help a person off with — to assist a person in the removal of (clothes)
  • hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
  • highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
  • in the eye of the wind — directly against the wind
  • interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
  • jump in with both feet — to enter into an activity or venture wholeheartedly
  • label switching router — (networking)   (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
  • lund software house ab — (company)   The company who produced Lund Simula. Address: Box 7056, S-22007 Lund, Sweden.
  • make common cause with — join forces
  • make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
  • make one's mouth water — a transparent, odorless, tasteless liquid, a compound of hydrogen and oxygen, H 2 O, freezing at 32°F or 0°C and boiling at 212°F or 100°C, that in a more or less impure state constitutes rain, oceans, lakes, rivers, etc.: it contains 11.188 percent hydrogen and 88.812 percent oxygen, by weight.
  • manhattan clam chowder — a chowder made from clams, tomatoes, and other vegetables and seasoned with thyme.
  • nigger in the woodpile — a hidden snag or hindrance
  • nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
  • north rhine-westphalia — a state in W Germany; formerly a part of Rhine province. 13,154 sq. mi. (34,070 sq. km). Capital: Düsseldorf.
  • northern corn rootworm — corn rootworm.
  • oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
  • on (or off) the wagon — no longer (or once again) drinking alcoholic liquors
  • on the crest of a wave — If you say that you are on the crest of a wave, you mean that you are feeling very happy and confident because things are going well for you.
  • on the same wavelength — Physics. the distance, measured in the direction of propagation of a wave, between two successive points in the wave that are characterized by the same phase of oscillation.
  • on the way/on it's way — If something is on the way, it will arrive soon.
  • once bitten, twice shy — You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.
  • sail close to the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
  • sb can whistle for sth — If you say that someone can whistle for a particular thing, you mean that you are not willing or able to give it to them.
  • self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
  • sell sb down the river — If someone sells you down the river, they betray you for some personal profit or advantage.
  • south sandwich islands — a group of volcanic islands, administered by England, in the South Atlantic Ocean: part of the Falkland Islands dependency. 120 sq. mi. (310 sq. km).
  • take one's breath away — the air inhaled and exhaled in respiration.
  • the end of the rainbow — If you say that something is at the end of the rainbow, you mean that people want it but it is almost impossible to obtain or achieve.
  • the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).

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