22-letter words containing s, e, w, d
- to twiddle your thumbs — If you say that someone is twiddling their thumbs, you mean that they do not have anything to do and are waiting for something to happen.
- twenty-first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1933, providing for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, which had outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages.
- twenty-sixth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1971, lowering the voting age to 18.
- van der waals equation — an equation of state relating the pressure, volume, and absolute temperature of a gas, taking into account the finite size of the molecules and the attractive force between them.
- wardour street english — affectedly archaic speech or writing
- was not born yesterday — is not gullible or foolish
- west greenland current — an ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Greenland.
- what's the difference? — what does it matter?
- white-tailed sea eagle — a grayish-brown sea eagle, Haliaetus albicilla, of the Old World and Greenland, having a white tail.
- white-throated sparrow — a common North American finch, Zonotrichia albicollis, having a white patch on the throat and a black and white striped crown.
- whitworth screw thread — a thread form and system of standard sizes, proposed by Whitworth in 1841 and adopted as standard in the U.K., having a flank angle of 55° and a rounded top and foot
- wi-fi protected access — (networking, security) (WPA) A security scheme for wireless networks, developed by the networking industry in response to the shortcomings of Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption and provides built-in authentication, giving security comparable to VPN tunneling with WEP, with the benefit of easier administration and use.
- windsor and maidenhead — (since 1917) a member of the present British royal family. Compare Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (def 1).
- within-subjects design — (of an experiment) concerned with measuring the value of the dependent variable for the same subjects under the various experimental conditions
- would sooner/'d sooner — If you say that you would sooner do something or you'd sooner do it, you mean that you would prefer to do it.
- wrong end of the stick — a complete misunderstanding of a situation, explanation, etc
- yellow-shafted flicker — a North American woodpecker C. auratus, which has a yellow undersurface to the wings and tail
- your neck of the woods — Someone or something that is from your neck of the woods is from the same part of the country as you are.