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17-letter words containing t, w, o, s, r

  • out of harm's way — If someone or something is out of harm's way, they are in a safe place away from danger or from the possibility of being damaged.
  • out of this world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • pointer swizzling — swizzle
  • power supply unit — (hardware)   (PSU) An electronic module that converts high voltage (110 or 240 VAC) alternating current mains electricity into smoothed direct current at the various differnt voltages required by the motherboard; internal peripheral devices, cheifly storage devices: hard disks, CD or DVD, floppy disks and external connections such as USB. A PSU needs a high enough power output rating to supply all the devices connected to it and should output as little as possible electrical noise, both on the output wires and as electromagnetic radiation. See also uninterruptable power supply.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
  • run short/run low — If you are running short of something or running low on something, you do not have much of it left. If a supply of something is running short or running low, there is not much of it left.
  • saint john's wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • show in (or out) — to usher into (or out of) a given place
  • show sb the ropes — If you show someone the ropes, you show them how to do a particular job or task.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • 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.
  • slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • social notworking — the practice of spending time unproductively on social networking websites, esp when one should be working
  • software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
  • software platform — a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.
  • south west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • south-west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • sun-2 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc., based on the Motorola 68000. Followed by the Sun-3 Workstation.
  • sun-3 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the 1980s, based on the Motorola 68020. Successor to the Sun-2 Workstation, followed by the Sun-4 Workstation. The Sun-3 had a custom MMU. A couple of mutant models used an entirely different architecture.
  • sun-4 workstation — (computer)   A Unix workstation produced by Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the late 1980s[?], based on SPARC processors. The Sun-4 followed the Sun-3 Workstation. Later SPARC-based workstations were called "SPARCstations".
  • swainson's thrush — a North American thrush, Catharus ustulatus, having olive upper parts and wintering south to Argentina.
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • throat sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
  • tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
  • to do one's worst — If someone does their worst, they do everything unpleasant that they can possibly do. You can say 'do your worst' to show someone that you are not frightened of what they may do.
  • to know the ropes — If you know the ropes, you know how a particular job or task should be done.
  • 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 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.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • tower of strength — a building or structure high in proportion to its lateral dimensions, either isolated or forming part of a building.
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