19-letter words containing w, a, i, s, t, e
- a slap on the wrist — A slap on the wrist is a warning or a punishment that is not very severe.
- a straw in the wind — an indication of what may happen
- acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
- appraisal interview — an interview by the manager of an employee who is being appraised
- asymmetric war-fare — warfare in which opposing groups or nations have unequal military resources, and the weaker opponent uses unconventional weapons and tactics, as terrorism, to exploit the vulnerabilities of the enemy.
- booker t washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
- british west africa — the former British possessions of Nigeria, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast, and the former trust territories of Togoland and Cameroons
- cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
- chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
- commercial software — (software) (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
- 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.
- credit default swap — a contract in which the parties exchange the exposure to loss should a creditor fail to make a payment when it comes due back
- daisy-wheel printer — a type of printer that uses a daisywheel
- deaf without speech — (usually of a prelingually deaf person) able to utter sounds but not speak
- east-west relations — relations between the United States and its allies in the western alliance and the Soviet Union, it allies and other Communist countries, especially during the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet regime
- 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.
- fall by the wayside — to cease or fail to continue doing something
- finds its/their way — If something finds its way somewhere, it comes to that place, especially by chance.
- goes without saying — If something goes without saying, it is obvious.
- have one's way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- highways department — the department of a state, council, etc, responsible for the upkeep of roads and highways
- irish water spaniel — one of an Irish breed of large water spaniels having a thick, curly, liver-colored coat, a topknot of long, loose curls, and a thin, tapering tail covered with short hair.
- jehovah's witnesses — a Christian sect, founded in the U.S. in the late 19th century, that believes in the imminent destruction of the world's wickedness and the establishment of a theocracy under God's rule.
- label switched path — (networking) (LSP) The specific path through a network that a datagram follows, based on its MPLS labels.
- let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
- nasty piece of work — malicious person
- new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
- newtonian mechanics — the branch of mechanics that is based on Newton's laws of motion and that is applicable to systems that are so large that Planck's constant can be regarded as negligibly small (distinguished from quantum mechanics).
- newtonian telescope — a reflecting telescope in which a mirror or reflecting prism is mounted on the axis near the eyepiece so that the image may be viewed from outside the telescope tube at right angles to the axis.
- nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
- 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.
- parting of the ways — When there is a parting of the ways, two or more people or groups of people stop working together or travelling together.
- pinwheel escapement — a clock escapement in which two pallets, usually of unequal length, alternately engage and release pins set on the escape wheel perpendicular to its plane of rotation.
- play footsie (with) — to touch feet or rub knees (with) in a caressing way, as under the table
- programmer's switch — (hardware) A button on the front of some Apple Macintosh computers which, when pressed, causes a command line prompt to appear. This gives access to the built-in mini-debugger, which has commands to dump memory, return to the application that was broken out, and others. A more sophisticated debugger must be installed in order to inspect breakpoints, etc.
- public-interest law — a branch of law that often utilizes class-action suits to protect the interest of a large group or of the public at large, as in matters relating to racial discrimination, air pollution, etc.
- reef whitetip shark — whitetip shark (def 1).
- sandwich generation — the generation of people still raising their children while having to care for their aging parents.
- so what else is new — not surprised
- son-of-a-bitch stew — (in the Old West) a stew often prepared by chuck-wagon cooks for working cowboys, containing tripe and often also the heart, liver, brains, kidney, etc., of a slaughtered steer.
- sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
- spanish west africa — a former overseas territory of Spain in NW Africa: divided in 1958 into the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara
- spider-hunting wasp — any solitary wasp of the superfamily Pompiloidea, having a slender elongated body: the fast-running female hunts spiders as a food store for her larvae
- stick in one's craw — the crop of a bird or insect.
- straightforwardness — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- strawberry geranium — a plant, Saxifraga stolonifera (or S. sarmentosa), of the saxifrage family, native to eastern Asia, that has rounded, variegated leaves and numerous threadlike stolons and is frequently cultivated as a houseplant.
- 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.
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