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18-letter words containing t, h, e, w, a

  • make heavy weather — to bring into existence by shaping or changing material, combining parts, etc.: to make a dress; to make a channel; to make a work of art.
  • make short work of — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • make sth one's own — If you make something your own, you become involved in it in such a way that people think of it as being related only to you or belonging only to you, rather than to anyone else.
  • moscow art theater — a Russian theatrical company founded in 1898 principally by Konstantin Stanislavski and famous for its naturalistic acting.
  • nailed to the wall — [like a trophy] Said of a bug finally eliminated after protracted, and even heroic, effort.
  • negative cash flow — the situation when income is less than payments
  • neighborhood watch — a neighborhood surveillance program or group in which residents keep watch over one another's houses, patrol the streets, etc., in an attempt to prevent crime.
  • north saskatchewan — a river in S central Canada, flowing E from the Rocky Mountains and joining the South Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 760 miles (1223 km) long.
  • not breathe a word — to take air, oxygen, etc., into the lungs and expel it; inhale and exhale; respire.
  • one way or another — somehow, by some means
  • over and done with — If you say that something is over and done with, you mean that it is completely finished and you do not have to think about it any more.
  • packet switch node — (PSN) A dedicated computer whose purpose is to accept, route and forward packets in a packet-switched network.
  • paint the town red — a substance composed of solid coloring matter suspended in a liquid medium and applied as a protective or decorative coating to various surfaces, or to canvas or other materials in producing a work of art.
  • pave the way (for) — to prepare the way (for); facilitate the introduction (of)
  • peter and the wolf — a composition by Sergei Prokofiev written in 1936. It is a children's story with both music and text, spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra
  • peter tschaikowsky — Peter Ilyich [il-yich] /ˈɪl yɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich.
  • random walk theory — the theory that the future movement of share prices does not reflect past movements and therefore will not follow a discernible pattern
  • rhode island white — one of a dual-purpose American breed of chickens having white feathers and a rose comb.
  • salem witch trials — 17th-century witchcraft case
  • saskatchewan party — (in Canada) a Saskatchewan political party formed by former members of the provincial Progressive Conservative and Liberal Parties
  • schwarz inequality — Also called Cauchy's inequality. the theorem that the inner product of two vectors is less than or equal to the product of the magnitudes of the vectors.
  • short-tailed shrew — a grayish-black shrew, Blarina brevicauda, common in eastern North America, that has a tail less than half the length of the body.
  • slow on the uptake — slow to understand or learn
  • south saskatchewan — a river in W Canada, flowing E from S Alberta and joining the North Saskatchewan River to form the Saskatchewan River. 865 miles (1392 km) long.
  • sow dragon's teeth — to take some action that is intended to prevent strife or trouble but that actually brings it about
  • spike-tooth harrow — a harrow equipped with straight teeth on horizontal bars, usually employed to smooth and level plowed soil or seedbeds for planting or sowing.
  • stomach sweetbread — sweetbread (def 1).
  • swedish gymnastics — a system of passive and active exercising of muscles and joints
  • take the wraps off — to reveal
  • talk between ships — TBS (def 1).
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the cat's whiskers — a person or thing that is excellent or superior
  • the operative word — If you describe a word as the operative word, you want to draw attention to it because you think it is important or exactly true in a particular situation.
  • the powers that be — You can refer to people in authority as the powers that be, especially when you want to say that you disagree with them or do not understand what they say or do.
  • the weather bureau — the national agency responsible for collecting data about the weather and issuing forecasts
  • the welsh assembly — the elected assembly for Wales, based in Cardiff, that has certain powers devolved from the UK government
  • the worse for wear — If you say that someone is the worse for wear, you mean that they are tired, ill, or in a bad state because they have been very active, been through a difficult experience, or been drinking alcohol.
  • to sweep the board — If someone sweeps the board in a competition or election, they win nearly everything that it is possible to win.
  • to watch your step — If someone tells you to watch your step, they are warning you to be careful about how you behave or what you say so that you do not get into trouble.
  • townsend avalanche — avalanche (def 3).
  • two-chamber system — the system of having two parliamentary chambers, as the House of Lords and the House of Commons in the United Kingdom
  • warehouse capacity — the amount of storage space in a warehouse
  • watchdog committee — a committee responsible for monitoring standards of behaviour
  • water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
  • water on the brain — hydrocephalus.
  • wave of the future — a trend or development that may influence or become a significant part of the future: Computerization is the wave of the future.
  • weather forecaster — meteorologist
  • wesleyan methodist — a member of any of the churches founded on the evangelical principles of John Wesley.
  • west-northwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-northwest.
  • west-southwestward — moving, bearing, facing, or situated toward the west-southwest.
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