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17-letter words containing p, w, a

  • 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
  • prusso-danish war — a war of 1864 between Prussia and Denmark by which Denmark lost Schleswig-Holstein.
  • put in a word for — to make favourable mention of (someone); recommend
  • quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • sandwich compound — any of a class of organometallic compounds whose molecules have a metal atom or ion bound between two plane parallel organic rings
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • to play with fire — If you say that someone is playing with fire, you mean that they are doing something dangerous that may result in great harm for them and cause many problems.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • wage-price spiral — a situation in which wage and price increases drive each other upward and cause inflation
  • waiver of premium — a provision in a policy establishing specific conditions under which the policy will be kept in force without the policyholder's being required to continue to pay premiums.
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • walleye surfperch — a common black and silvery surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum) found off the coast of California
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • warm-up exercises — preparatory exercises done to warm up the muscles
  • washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
  • wastepaper basket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • wave-cut platform — a flat surface at the base of a cliff formed by erosion by waves
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • wearable computer — a small computer that is worn or carried on the body; a wearable computing device: a wrist-worn wearable computer with a head-mounted display.
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
  • well-photographed — a picture produced by photography.
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • wild sarsaparilla — a low plant, Aralia nudicaulis, of the ginseng family, native to eastern North America, having a single, long-stalked, compound leaf and a ball-like cluster of greenish-yellow flowers.
  • wild sweet potato — man-of-the-earth.
  • wireless operator — a radio operator
  • wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc
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