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19-letter words containing s, n, o, w, f

  • 3dnow! professional — (architecture)   A floating point SIMD extention from AMD, compatible with Intel's SSE, introduced with the Athlon-4.
  • a law unto yourself — If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
  • a new lease of life — If you say that someone or something has been given a new lease of life, you are emphasizing that they are much more lively or successful than they have been in the past.
  • brazen law of wages — the doctrine or theory that wages tend toward a level sufficient only to maintain a subsistence standard of living.
  • cardbox for windows — (database)   A database handling program, especially useful for scholars and librarians.
  • cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
  • city of westminster — a borough of Greater London, on the River Thames: contains the Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, and Buckingham Palace. Pop: 222 000 (2003 est). Area: 22 sq km (8 sq miles)
  • dependable software — software reliability
  • do well for oneself — to thrive or succeed
  • draw someone's fire — to attract the criticism or censure of someone
  • fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
  • first law of motion — any of three laws of classical mechanics, either the law that a body remains at rest or in motion with a constant velocity unless an external force acts on the body (first law of motion) the law that the sum of the forces acting on a body is equal to the product of the mass of the body and the acceleration produced by the forces, with motion in the direction of the resultant of the forces (second law of motion) or the law that for every force acting on a body, the body exerts a force having equal magnitude and the opposite direction along the same line of action as the original force (third law of motion or law of action and reaction)
  • fix someone's wagon — any of various kinds of four-wheeled vehicles designed to be pulled or having its own motor and ranging from a child's toy to a commercial vehicle for the transport of heavy loads, delivery, etc.
  • flowering raspberry — a shrub, Rubus ordoratus, of eastern North America, having loose clusters of showy purplish or rose-purple flowers and inedible, dry, red fruit.
  • franco-prussian war — the war between France and Prussia, 1870–71.
  • go out of one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • have a weakness for — be fond of
  • live one's own life — If you live your own life, you live in the way that you want to and accept responsibility for your actions and decisions, without other people's advice or interference.
  • low insertion force — (hardware)   (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
  • mary wollstonecraftMary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • menominee whitefish — round whitefish.
  • nasty piece of work — malicious person
  • network file system — (networking, operating system)   (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
  • nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • north-west frontier — the area roughly equivalent to the present North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, which is the days of the British Raj was regarded as one of the most remote and dangerous outposts of the British Empire
  • of one's own accord — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
  • own flesh and blood — If you say that someone is your own flesh and blood, you are emphasizing that they are a member of your family.
  • parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
  • personal watercraft — a jet-propelled boat ridden like a motorcycle.
  • pugwash conferences — international peace conferences of scientists held regularly to discuss world problems: Nobel peace prize 1995 awarded to Joseph Rotblat (1908–2005) , one of the founders of the conferences, secretary-general (1957–73), and president (1988–97)
  • put one's foot down — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
  • siberian wallflower — a North American plant, Erysimum asperum, of the mustard family, having orange-yellow flowers.
  • son-of-a-bitch stew — (in the Old West) a stew often prepared by chuck-wagon cooks for working cowboys, containing tripe and often also the heart, liver, brains, kidney, etc., of a slaughtered steer.
  • sound effects woman — a woman who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • taming of the shrew — a comedy (1594?) by Shakespeare.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • throw oneself at sb — If someone throws themselves at you, they make it very obvious that they want to begin a relationship with you, by behaving as though they are sexually attracted to you.
  • to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
  • under the shadow of — in danger of; apparently fated for
  • unlawful possession — possession of substances or items (such as drugs or guns) for which criminal sanctions exist because they may not be legally possessed or may not be possessed under certain circumstances
  • venus of willendorf — a village in NE Austria, near Krems: site of an Aurignacian settlement where a 4½ inches (11 cm) limestone statuette (Venus of Willendorf) was found.
  • wage-push inflation — an inflationary trend caused by wage increases that in turn cause rises in production costs and prices.
  • want no part of sth — If you say that you want no part of something, you mean that you do not want to be involved in it at all.
  • wash one's hands of — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • white-fronted goose — a grayish-brown wild goose, Anser albifrons, of Eurasia and western North America, having a white patch on the front of the face.
  • whorfian hypothesis — Sapir-Whorf hypothesis.
  • with flying colours — If you pass a test with flying colours, you have done very well in the test.
  • yellowtail kingfish — a large carangid game fish, Seriola grandis, of S Australian waters

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