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19-letter words containing w, a, d, e, s, o

  • 3dnow! professional — (architecture)   A floating point SIMD extention from AMD, compatible with Intel's SSE, introduced with the Athlon-4.
  • acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
  • aldridge-brownhills — a town in central England, in Walsall unitary authority, West Midlands: formed by the amalgamation of neighbouring towns in 1966. Pop: 35 525 (2001)
  • asbestos cork award — (humour)   Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed, had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the "asbestos cork award". (Any reader in doubt as to the intended application of the cork should consult the etymology under flame.) Since then, it is agreed that only a select few have risen to the heights of bombast required to earn this dubious dignity - but there is no agreement on *which* few.
  • backward somersault — a somersault performed in a backward direction with the legs leading the rest of the body
  • bend over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • blackfellow's bread — the edible portion of a species of pore fungus, Polyporus mylittae, that occurs in Australia.
  • carbon dioxide snow — solid carbon dioxide, used as a refrigerant
  • compact disc writer — (storage)   (CD burner) A device that can write data to Compact Disc Recordable (CD-R) or Compact Disc Rewritable (CD-RW) discs. Now both these CD formats are often combined with a DVD writer.
  • conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
  • country and western — Country and western is the same as country music.
  • country-and-western — country music.
  • deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
  • dependable software — software reliability
  • dig one's own grave — If you say that someone is digging their own grave, you are warning them that they are doing something foolish or dangerous that will cause their own failure.
  • draw in one's horns — one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
  • draw someone's fire — to attract the criticism or censure of someone
  • endowment assurance — a form of life insurance that provides for the payment of a specified sum directly to the policyholder at a designated date or to his beneficiary should he die before this date
  • endowment insurance — Endowment insurance is a type of life insurance that pays a particular sum directly to the policyholder at a stated date, or to a beneficiary if the policyholder dies before this date.
  • feather-duster worm — any tube-dwelling polychaete worm of the families Sabellidae and Serpulidae, the numerous species having a crown of feathery tentacles used in feeding and respiration.
  • five o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
  • five-o'clock shadow — the rather dark stubble that appears on a man's face some hours after shaving, typically in the late afternoon if he shaved in the morning.
  • lay down one's arms — to stop fighting; surrender
  • lean over backwards — to make a special effort, esp in order to please
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • mendel's second law — the principle, originated by Gregor Mendel, stating that when two or more characteristics are inherited, individual hereditary factors assort independently during gamete production, giving different traits an equal opportunity of occurring together.
  • mouse-ear chickweed — any of various similar and related plants of the genus Cerastium
  • nine--days---wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
  • nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • northwest ordinance — the act of Congress in 1787 providing for the government of the Northwest Territory and setting forth the steps by which its subdivisions might become states.
  • of one's own accord — to be in agreement or harmony; agree.
  • own flesh and blood — If you say that someone is your own flesh and blood, you are emphasizing that they are a member of your family.
  • ralph waldo emerson — Ralph Waldo [wawl-doh,, wol-] /ˈwɔl doʊ,, ˈwɒl-/ (Show IPA), 1803–82, U.S. essayist and poet.
  • red-shouldered hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo lineatus, having rufous shoulders.
  • sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
  • scale down (or up) — to reduce (or increase), often according to a fixed ratio or proportion
  • sound effects woman — a woman who produces sounds artificially or reproduces them from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop. Such sound effects are used in plays, films, etc
  • sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • swallow one's words — to retract a statement, argument, etc, often in humiliating circumstances
  • swallow-tailed coat — tail coat.
  • swallow-tailed kite — an American kite, Elanoides forficatus, having black upper parts, white head and underparts, and a long, deeply forked tail.
  • the hampshire downs — a range of low chalk hills that crosses Hampshire in S England
  • throw in one's hand — (in cards) to concede defeat by putting one's cards down
  • throw sth overboard — If you throw something overboard, for example an idea or suggestion, you reject it completely.
  • tidal power station — a power station where the energy of flowing water is converted into electricity
  • to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
  • under the shadow of — in danger of; apparently fated for
  • wandering albatross — a large albatross, Diomedea exulans, of southern waters, having the plumage mostly white with dark markings on the upper parts.
  • wash one's hands of — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.

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