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15-letter words containing s, w, i, b

  • abyssinian well — a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water; wellpoint.
  • bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
  • be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
  • bird's eye view — You say that you have a bird's eye view of a place when you are looking down at it from a great height, so that you can see a long way but everything looks very small.
  • bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blow one's 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.
  • bowstring truss — a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • gibson, william — William Gibson
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
  • mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
  • new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • william websterDaniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
  • wring sb's neck — If you say that you will wring someone's neck or that you would like to wring their neck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.

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