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17-letter words containing w, a, s

  • a law unto itself — a person or thing that is outside established laws
  • acme screw thread — a type of screw thread having inclined flat flanks and a flat top and bottom: used in machine tools
  • against sb's will — If something is done against your will, it is done even though you do not want it to be done.
  • agricultural show — a display of agricultural equipment and livestock, often including competitions, entertainment, and a trade fair
  • ahnfelt's seaweed — a red alga, Ahnfeltia plicata, common along the coasts of North America and Europe, having brownish, bushlike branches.
  • almost everywhere — everywhere in a given set except on a subset with measure zero. Abbreviation: a.e.
  • american wormseed — a plant with seeds used in medicine to treat worm infestation, Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • answering machine — An answering machine is the same as an answerphone.
  • answering pennant — one of the flags of the International Code of Signals, a pennant of three red and two white vertical stripes, flown at the dip while a message is being interpreted and close up when it is understood.
  • answering service — a business that answers telephone calls on behalf of another business or organization, taking messages from and providing information to callers
  • 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.
  • as who should say — as if one should say
  • at one fell swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
  • at one's own pace — If you do something at your own pace, you do it at a speed that is comfortable for you.
  • at one's own risk — If you tell someone that they are doing something at their own risk, you are warning them that, if they are harmed, it will be their own responsibility.
  • at swords' points — ready to quarrel or fight
  • audubon's warbler — a common North American wood warbler, Dendroica coronata, having yellow spots on the rump, crown, and sides, including a white-throated eastern subspecies (myrtle warbler) and a yellow-throated western subspecies (Audubon's warbler)
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • backward analysis — (theory)   An analysis to determine properties of the inputs of a program from properties or context of the outputs. E.g. if the output of this function is needed then this argument is needed. Compare forward analysis.
  • barbed-wire grass — an aromatic grass, Cymbopogon refractus, with groups of seed heads resembling barbed wire
  • barchester towers — a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope.
  • barren strawberry — a Eurasian plant, Potentilla sterilis, related to the strawberry that does not produce edible fruit
  • barrow-in-furness — an industrial town in NW England, in S Cumbria. Pop: 47 194 (2001)
  • black swallowtail — the tail of a swallow or a deeply forked tail like that of a swallow.
  • black swallowwort — celandine (def 1).
  • blackwells island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • blow someone away — to kill by shooting
  • blowpipe analysis — a type of chemical analysis in which the intensely hot flame of a blowpipe vaporizes a mineral or other substance with a characteristically colored flame and a unique odor, so as to identify chemical elements in a substance
  • blue sky software — eHelp Corporation
  • 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
  • breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
  • broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • buys ballot's law — a law stating that if an observer stands with his back to the wind in the N hemisphere, atmospheric pressure is lower on his left, and vice versa in the S hemisphere
  • buys-ballot's law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
  • caribou codeworks — (company)   The company which sells QTRADER. Director of Marketing: Norm Larsen <[email protected]>.
  • 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.
  • circassian walnut — the hard, heavy, brown or purplish wood of the English walnut
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • classical pathway — the activation of complement by an antigen-antibody reaction. Compare alternative pathway.
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • cocktail waitress — a woman who serves in a bar or cocktail lounge
  • consolidated laws — a body of laws collected together in a single codifying statute
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • crew-neck sweater — a sweater with a crew neck
  • darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
  • darwinian-fitness — health.

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