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17-letter words containing s, w, e, a, t

  • tennessee warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora peregrina, having a gray head, a greenish back, and white underparts.
  • test the water(s) — to explore a possible course of action; approach initially
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • the hawkeye state — a nickname for the US state of Iowa
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the new jerusalem — the de facto capital of Israel (recognition of this has been withheld by the United Nations), situated in the Judaean hills: became capital of the Hebrew kingdom after its capture by David around 1000 bc; destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 586 bc; taken by the Romans in 63 bc; devastated in 70 ad and 135 ad during the Jewish rebellions against Rome; fell to the Arabs in 637 and to the Seljuk Turks in 1071; ruled by Crusaders from 1099 to 1187 and by the Egyptians and Turks until conquered by the British (1917); centre of the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, when the Arabs took the old city and the Jews held the new city; unified after the Six Day War (1967) under the Israelis; the holy city of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Pop: 693 200 (2003 est)
  • the show-me state — the nickname of the US state of Missouri, which comes from its inhabitants' reputation for scepticism
  • the twelve tables — the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • thirty years' war — the war, often regarded as a series of wars (1618–48), in central Europe, initially involving a conflict between German Protestants and Catholics and later including political rivalries with France, Sweden, and Denmark opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
  • three-strikes law — a law that mandates a life sentence to a felon convicted for the third time.
  • throat sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
  • to show your face — If you show your face somewhere, you go there and see people, although you are not welcome, are rather unwilling to go, or have not been there for some time.
  • to steal the show — If you say that someone steals the show, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a show or other event.
  • to test the water — If you test the water or test the waters, you try to find out what reaction an action or idea will get before you do it or tell it to people.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • wade-giles system — a system of Romanization of Chinese, devised by Sir Thomas Francis Wade (1818–95) and adapted by Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), widely used in representing Chinese words and names in English, especially before the adoption of pinyin.
  • wage negotiations — talks between workers and employers over rates of pay
  • waianae mountains — a mountain range in W Oahu, Hawaii. Highest peak, Mount Kaala, 4025 feet (1228 meters).
  • waist measurement — a measure of the circumference of the narrowest part of a person's waist
  • wall street crash — the dramatic collapse of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929, an important factor in the early stages of the Depression
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • wars of the roses — the civil struggle between the royal house of Lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, and the royal house of York, whose emblem was a white rose, beginning in 1455 and ending with the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the union of the two houses.
  • warsaw convention — a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • wastepaper basket — a standing basket for wastepaper, small items of trash, etc.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • wear the trousers — to have control, esp in a marriage
  • weather satellite — meteorological satellite.
  • weather-resistant — resisting the effects of severe weather, as rain or cold: weather-resistant cloth for topcoats.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • western australia — a state in W Australia. 975,920 sq. mi. (2,527,635 sq. km). Capital: Perth.
  • western red cedar — an arborvitae, Thuja plicata, of western North America, grown as an ornamental.
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • what does sb know — You can use expressions such as What does she know? and What do they know? when you think that someone has no right to comment on a situation because they do not understand it.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
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