17-letter words containing s, g, h, w
- agricultural show — a display of agricultural equipment and livestock, often including competitions, entertainment, and a trade fair
- answering machine — An answering machine is the same as an answerphone.
- broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
- circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
- circuit switching — (communications) Communication via a single dedicated path between the sender and receiver. The telephone system is an example of a circuit switched network. The term connection-oriented is used in packet-based networks in contrast to connectionless communication or packet switching.
- consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
- dog and pony show — an elaborate sales, advertising, or publicity presentation or campaign.
- edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
- 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.
- glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
- go by the wayside — to be put aside on account of something more urgent
- go without saying — something said, especially a proverb or apothegm.
- great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
- great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
- guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
- hardware register — (hardware, system administration) (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
- high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
- highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads
- horst wessel song — the official song of the Nazi party in Germany from 1933 to 1945.
- 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.
- king philip's war — the war (1675–76) between New England colonists and a confederation of Indians under their leader, King Philip.
- light dawns on sb — If light dawns on you, you begin to understand something after a period of not being able to understand it.
- may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
- message switching — store and forward
- new english bible — an English translation (1970) of the Bible into contemporary idiom, directed by Anglican and other Protestant churches of Great Britain.
- northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
- sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
- sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
- spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
- swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
- switching station — A switching station is equipment used to tie together two or more electric circuits through switches.
- teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
- the lower regions — hell
- the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
- tower of strength — a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
- turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
- utagawa kuniyoshi — original name Igusa Magosabwo. 1797–1861, Japanese painter and printmaker of the ukiyo-e school, best known for his prints of warriors and landscapes
- walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
- warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
- washing-up liquid — Washing-up liquid is a thick soapy liquid which you add to hot water to clean dirty dishes.
- washington island — an island off the Door Peninsula, NE Wisconsin, in NW Lake Michigan. 20 sq. mi. (50 sq. km).
- washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
- weigh one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
- windowglass shell — capiz.
- wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
- with guns blazing — If you come out with guns blazing or with all guns blazing, you put all your effort and energy into trying to achieve something.
- wring one's hands — If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.
- wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.
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