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17-letter words containing t, e, n, w, i

  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • straw in the wind — If you say that an incident or piece of news is a straw in the wind, you mean that it gives an indication of what might happen in the future.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • tell its own tale — to be self-evident
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the unwritten law — the tradition that a person may avenge any insult to family integrity, as used to justify criminal acts of vengeance
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • the witching hour — the hour at which witches are supposed to appear, usually midnight
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • wage differential — the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities
  • 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
  • walk-in apartment — a ground-floor apartment having a private entrance directly from the street, rather than through a hallway of the building.
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • 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.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • weather-resistant — resisting the effects of severe weather, as rain or cold: weather-resistant cloth for topcoats.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • wedding reception — party after a marriage
  • well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • well-proportioned — adjusted to proper proportion or relation.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • western australia — a state in W Australia. 975,920 sq. mi. (2,527,635 sq. km). Capital: Perth.
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • wet one's whistle — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • white-nationalism — white supremacy.
  • white-pine weevil — a brown beetle, Pissodes strobi, the larvae of which feed on the terminal buds and shoots of white pine and other conifers.
  • white-winged dove — a common dove, Zenaida asiatica, of the southwestern U.S. to Chile.
  • whiter than white — extremely clean and white
  • wide area network — a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area.
  • wide-area network — a computer network that spans a relatively large geographical area.
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