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17-letter words containing w, a, e, s, o

  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • 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.
  • sword and sorcery — a genre of literature and film, usually set in days of old with magic as well as sword fighting
  • sword of damocles — Damocles (def 2).
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • tell its own tale — to be self-evident
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the show-me state — the nickname of the US state of Missouri, which comes from its inhabitants' reputation for scepticism
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • 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 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 steal the show — If you say that someone steals the show, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a show or other event.
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • war correspondent — a reporter or commentator assigned to send news or opinions directly from battle areas.
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • wars of the roses — the civil struggle between the royal house of Lancaster, whose emblem was a red rose, and the royal house of York, whose emblem was a white rose, beginning in 1455 and ending with the accession of Henry VII in 1485 and the union of the two houses.
  • 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
  • wear the trousers — to have control, esp in a marriage
  • weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
  • welfare economics — a branch of economics concerned with improving human welfare and social conditions chiefly through the optimum distribution of wealth, the relief or reduction of unemployment, etc.
  • well-accomplished — completed; done; effected: an accomplished fact.
  • well-demonstrated — to make evident or establish by arguments or reasoning; prove: to demonstrate a philosophical principle.
  • welsh nationalism — the political belief that Wales should be independent
  • welsh nationalist — a person who believes that Wales should be independent
  • welshman's button — an angler's name for a species of caddis fly, Sericostoma personatum
  • weston-super-mare — a town and resort in SW England, in North Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, on the Bristol Channel. Pop: 78 044 (2001)
  • what does sb know — You can use expressions such as What does she know? and What do they know? when you think that someone has no right to comment on a situation because they do not understand it.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • white-nationalism — white supremacy.
  • wild sweet potato — man-of-the-earth.
  • william shoemaker — William Lee ("Willie") 1931–2003, U.S. jockey.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • wireless operator — a radio operator
  • wood meadow grass — a coarse, spreading grass, Poa nemoralis, of Eurasia, having flowers in long, narrow clusters.
  • wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc
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