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19-letter words containing s, e, w, d

  • (down) in the dumps — in low spirits; depressed
  • 3dnow! professional — (architecture)   A floating point SIMD extention from AMD, compatible with Intel's SSE, introduced with the Athlon-4.
  • a straw in the wind — an indication of what may happen
  • acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
  • aldridge-brownhills — a town in central England, in Walsall unitary authority, West Midlands: formed by the amalgamation of neighbouring towns in 1966. Pop: 35 525 (2001)
  • andrew s. tanenbaum — Andrew Tanenbaum
  • asbestos cork award — (humour)   Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the "asbestos cork award". (Any reader in doubt as to the intended application of the cork should consult the etymology under flame.) Since then, it is agreed that only a select few have risen to the heights of bombast required to earn this dubious dignity - but there is no agreement on *which* few.
  • backward somersault — a somersault performed in a backward direction with the legs leading the rest of the body
  • bandar seri begawan — the capital of Brunei. Pop: 64 000 (2005 est)
  • bend over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • blackfellow's bread — the edible portion of a species of pore fungus, Polyporus mylittae, that occurs in Australia.
  • blow someone's mind — (of a drug, esp LSD) to alter someone's mental state
  • british west indies — a former name for the states in the Caribbean that are members of the Commonwealth: the Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; along with the islands which remain as United Kingdom dependencies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Montserrat, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the British Virgin Islands
  • carbon dioxide snow — solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant
  • compact disc writer — (storage)   (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
  • conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
  • country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
  • country-and-western — country music.
  • credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
  • credit someone with — to believe that someone has or is responsible for; ascribe to someone
  • daisy-wheel printer — a type of printer that uses a daisywheel
  • deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
  • dependable software — software reliability
  • dig one's own grave — If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
  • do well for oneself — to thrive or succeed
  • double yellow lines — parallel yellow lines painted down the centre of a roadway to indicate that overtaking is not permitted in either direction
  • draw in one's horns — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • draw someone's fire — to attract the criticism or censure of someone
  • dwight d eisenhowerDwight David ("Ike") 1890–1969, U.S. general and statesman: Chief of Staff 1945–48; 34th president of the U.S. 1953–61.
  • endowment assurance — a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date
  • endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
  • fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
  • feather-duster worm — any tube-dwelling polychaete worm of the families Sabellidae and Serpulidae, the numerous species having a crown of feathery tentacles used in feeding and respiration.
  • finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
  • first world problem — a fairly minor problem, frustrating situation, or complaint associated with a relatively high standard of living, as opposed to the more serious problems associated with poverty: I’m bored with all my electronic gadgets—such a first world problem!
  • five o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
  • five-o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
  • germander speedwell — a speedwell, Veronica chamaedrys, having blue flowers.
  • go down the tube(s) — If a business, economy, or institution goes down the tubes or goes down the tube, it fails or collapses completely.
  • grosse pointe woods — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
  • highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
  • it would be wise to — If someone says to you that it would be wise to do something, they are advising you to do it, because it is the most sensible and reasonable action or decision in a particular situation.
  • know one's own mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • label switched path — (networking)   (LSP) The specific path through a network that a datagram follows, based on its MPLS labels.
  • lakshadweep islands — a group of 26 coral islands and reefs in the Arabian Sea, off the SW coast of India: a union territory of India since 1956. Administrative centre: Kavaratti Island. Pop: 60 595 (2001). Area: 28 sq km (11 sq miles)
  • lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
  • lean over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • mendel's second law — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that when two or more characteristics are inherited, individual hereditary factors assort independently during gamete production, giving different traits an equal opportunity of occurring together.
  • mermaid's wineglass — a colony of green algae, Acetabularia crenulata, of warm seas, having a cup-shaped cap on a slender stalk.

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