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17-letter words containing w, a, r, c, h

  • acme screw thread — a type of screw thread having inclined flat flanks and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools
  • agricultural show — a display of agricultural equipment and livestock, often including competitions, entertainment, and a trade fair
  • all-weather court — a tennis court suitable to be used in all kinds of weather
  • american wirehair — a breed of medium-large cat with a coarse wiry coat
  • answering machine — An answering machine is the same as an answerphone.
  • antitwilight arch — a narrow band, pink or with a purple cast, that sometimes appears at twilight just above the horizon opposite the sun.
  • archimedes' screw — an ancient type of water-lifting device making use of a spiral passage in an inclined cylinder. The water is raised when the spiral is rotated
  • as the crow flies — If you say that a place is a particular distance away as the crow flies, you mean that it is that distance away measured in a straight line.
  • backward chaining — (algorithm)   An algorithm for proving a goal by recursively breaking it down into sub-goals and trying to prove these until facts are reached. Facts are goals with no sub-goals which are therefore always true. Backward training is the program execution mechanism used by most logic programming language like Prolog. Opposite: forward chaining.
  • barchester towers — a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope.
  • boatswain's chair — a seat consisting of a short flat board slung from ropes, used to support a person working on the side of a vessel or in its rigging
  • character witness — a witness in a trial who testifies to the accused's general good character rather than providing evidence about the specific offence which has led to him or her being on trial
  • charles henry dowCharles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.
  • charles townshendCharles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • dwarf huckleberry — tangleberry.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • hurricane warning — a storm warning given for winds with speeds exceeding 63 knots (72 mph, 32 m/sec) when the source of the winds is a tropical cyclone.
  • julian of norwich — ?1342–?1413, English mystic and anchoress: best known for the Revelations of Divine Love describing her visions
  • law of trichotomy — the property that for natural numbers a and b , either a is less than b , a equals b , or a is greater than b .
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • northcountrywoman — a female native or inhabitant of the North of England
  • on the wrong tack — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • richard arkwrightSir Richard, 1732–92, English inventor of the spinning jenny.
  • roll with a punch — to move in the same direction as a punch thrown at one so as to lessen its force
  • scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • south west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • south-west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • the water carrier — the constellation Aquarius, the 11th sign of the zodiac
  • 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 throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.
  • touch a raw nerve — If you say that you have touched a nerve or touched a raw nerve, you mean that you have accidentally upset someone by talking about something that they feel strongly about or are very sensitive about.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • wall street crash — the dramatic collapse of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929, an important factor in the early stages of the Depression
  • walleye surfperch — a common black and silvery surfperch (Hyperprosopon argenteum) found off the coast of California
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • willow flycatcher — a North American flycatcher, Empidonax alnorum, of alder thickets and other moist areas, that has greenish-brown upper parts and whitish underparts and is almost indistinguishable except by voice from E. traillii (willow flycatcher)
  • wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.

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