22-letter words containing t, w, e, c
- (with) tongue in cheek — in a humorously ironic, mocking, or insincere way
- a name to conjure with — If you say that the name of a particular person or organization is a name to conjure with, you mean that that person or organization is very important and influential in the field you are discussing.
- american water spaniel — any of a breed of spaniel with a curly, reddish or dark-brown coat, used as a retriever, esp. of waterfowl
- born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
- bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
- bristle-thighed curlew — an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in Polynesia, having bristlelike feathers on its thighs.
- cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
- catch/take sb unawares — If something catches you unawares or takes you unawares, it happens when you are not expecting it.
- chinese water chestnut — a Chinese cyperaceous plant, Eleocharis tuberosa, with an edible succulent corm
- come up with the goods — If you deliver the goods or come up with the goods, you do what is expected or required of you.
- committee of the whole — (in the US) all the members of the House of Representatives, regarded as a committee
- communications network — a network that provides information
- continuous welded rail — a long, continuous rail formed by welding many short rails.
- cotton-wool generation — the children and teenagers of the early 21st century, viewed as having been overprotected while growing up
- covered with confusion — greatly embarrassed
- cut one's wisdom teeth — to arrive at the age of discretion
- double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
- every now and then etc — You use every in the expressions every now and then, every now and again, every once in a while, and every so often in order to indicate that something happens occasionally.
- financial underwriting — Financial underwriting is the process of assessing whether the proposed sum insured and product are reasonable when considering the possible financial loss to the client.
- get/come to grips with — If you get to grips with a problem or if you come to grips with it, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
- golden-crowned kinglet — a yellowish-green kinglet, Regulus satrapa, of North America, having a yellow or orange patch on the top of the head.
- graeco-roman wrestling — a style of wrestling in which the legs may not be used to obtain a fall and no hold may be applied below the waist
- gulf of saint lawrence — a deep arm of the Atlantic off the E coast of Canada between Newfoundland and the mainland coasts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
- halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- hereford and worcester — a county in W England. 1516 sq. mi. (3926 sq. km).
- highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
- interactive courseware — (ICW) A training program controlled by a computer that relies on trainee input to determine the order and pace of instruction delivery. The trainee advances through the sequence of instructional events by making decisions and selections. The instruction branches according to the trainee's responses. ICW is a US military term which includes computer-aided instruction and computer-based training.
- interactive whiteboard — a smooth, glossy sheet of white plastic that can be written on with a colored pen or marker in the manner of a blackboard.
- jackpot winning ticket — a ticket that contains all the winning numbers in a lottery etc, allowing the owner of the ticket to claim the jackpot prize
- joint academic network — (JANET) The wide area network which links UK academic and research institutes. JANET is controlled by the Joint Network Team (JNT) and Network Executive (NE). It is an internet (a large number of interconnected sub-networks) that provides connectivity within the community as well as access to external services and other communities. The hub is the JANET subnetwork, a private X.25 packet-switched network that interconnects over 100 sites. At the majority of sites, local area networks (LANs) are connected to JANET allowing off-site access for the computers and terminals connected to these networks. The Coloured Book protocol architecture is used to support interactive terminal access to computers (for both character terminals and screen terminals), inter-host file transfers, electronic mail and remote batch job submission. See also JIPS, SuperJanet.
- label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
- law enforcement agency — an organization responsible for enforcing the law, such as a police or sheriff department
- limited access highway — expressway
- lowest common multiple — the smallest number that is a common multiple of a given set of numbers.
- make common cause with — join forces
- make contact (with sb) — If you make contact with someone, you find out where they are and talk or write to them.
- manhattan clam chowder — a chowder made from clams, tomatoes, and other vegetables and seasoned with thyme.
- master warrant officer — a noncommissioned officer in the Canadian forces junior to a chief warrant officer
- microwave spectroscopy — the determination of those frequencies of the microwave spectrum that are selectively absorbed by certain materials, providing information about atomic, molecular, and crystalline structure.
- name service switching — Domain Name System
- network interface card — network interface controller
- network node interface — (networking) (NNI) The ATM Forum's specification for connections between network nodes. NNI makes network routing possible. It typically refers to backbone trunk connections between ATM switching equipment. See also: UNI.
- nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
- northern corn rootworm — corn rootworm.
- oceanic whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 2).
- on the crest of a wave — If you say that you are on the crest of a wave, you mean that you are feeling very happy and confident because things are going well for you.
- once bitten, twice shy — You say 'once bitten, twice shy' when you want to indicate that someone will not do something a second time because they had a bad experience the first time they did it.
- open network computing — (ONC) Sun's network protocols.
- overstay one's welcome — to stay (at a party, on a visit, etc), longer than pleases the host or hostess
- peanut-butter sandwich — a sandwich with a filling of peanut-butter
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