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17-letter words containing w, a, t, l, e

  • a fly on the wall — If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall in a situation that does not involve you, you mean that you would like to see or hear what happens in that situation.
  • a law unto itself — a person or thing that is outside established laws
  • acetylene welding — a type of welding that uses an acetylene torch
  • ahnfelt's seaweed — a red alga, Ahnfeltia plicata, common along the coasts of North America and Europe, having brownish, bushlike branches.
  • all-weather court — a tennis court suitable to be used in all kinds of weather
  • almost everywhere — everywhere in a given set except on a subset with measure zero. Abbreviation: a.e.
  • an effort of will — If you do something difficult or painful by an effort of will, you manage to make yourself do it.
  • 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.
  • at one fell swoop — to sweep through the air, as a bird or a bat, especially down upon prey.
  • bar-tailed godwit — a large wader, Limosa lapponica, of the family Scolopacidae which, in migrating from Alaska to New Zealand, makes the longest journey without stopping for food taken by any animal
  • black-water fever — a form of babesiosis seen in cattle, deer, bison, water buffalo, African buffalo, and reindeer; characterized by fever, depression, jaundice, dark red-black discolouration of the urine, anaemia, and death
  • blue sky software — eHelp Corporation
  • breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
  • camberwell beauty — a nymphalid butterfly, Nymphalis antiopa, of temperate regions, having dark purple wings with cream-yellow borders
  • camberwell carrot — a large, almost conical, marijuana cigarette
  • capital allowance — the practice of allowing a certain amount of money spent by a company on fixed assets to be taken off the profits of the company before tax is imposed
  • 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
  • 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
  • contraflow system — a system of traffic lanes whose normal direction is reversed to allow traffic to move during repairs or an accident
  • dead to the world — unaware of one's surroundings, esp fast asleep or very drunk
  • deathwatch beetle — a beetle, Xestobium rufovillosum, whose woodboring larvae are a serious pest. The adult produces a rapid tapping sound with its head that was once popularly supposed to presage death
  • diocletian window — a window in the form of a round-headed archway with a narrower compartment on either side, the side compartments usually being capped with entablatures on which the arch of the central compartment rests.
  • down-at-the-heels — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
  • drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
  • dull as dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • edward fitzgeraldEdward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
  • equivalent weight — the weight of an element or compound that will combine with or displace 8 grams of oxygen or 1.007 97 grams of hydrogen
  • fellow countryman — sb of same nationality
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • follow the leader — a child's game in which players, one behind the other, follow a leader and must repeat or follow everything he or she does.
  • for all the world — the earth or globe, considered as a planet.
  • fort leonard wood — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in SW Missouri, SW of Rolla.
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
  • hardware platform — a group of compatible computers that can run the same software.
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • illinois waterway — a waterway system in N Illinois made up of canals and rivers connecting Lake Michigan in Chicago with the Mississippi River. 336 miles (541 km) long.
  • in the family way — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
  • international law — the body of rules that nations generally recognize as binding in their conduct toward one another.
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lake of the woodsEldrick [el-drik] /ˈɛl drɪk/ (Show IPA), ("Tiger") born 1975, U.S. professional golfer.
  • law of reflection — the principle that when a ray of light, radar pulse, or the like, is reflected from a smooth surface the angle of reflection is equal to the angle of incidence, and the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of refraction — the principle that for a ray, radar pulse, or the like, that is incident on the interface of two media, the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence to the sine of the angle of refraction is equal to the ratio of the velocity of the ray in the first medium to the velocity in the second medium and the incident ray, refracted ray, and normal to the surface at the point of incidence all lie in the same plane.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.

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