17-letter words containing w, a, v
- almost everywhere — everywhere in a given set except on a subset with measure zero. Abbreviation: a.e.
- answering service — a business that answers telephone calls on behalf of another business or organization, taking messages from and providing information to callers
- 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
- breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
- breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
- broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
- brownian movement — random movement of microscopic particles suspended in a fluid, caused by bombardment of the particles by molecules of the fluid. First observed in 1827, it provided strong evidence in support of the kinetic theory of molecules
- dow jones average — The Dow Jones Average is a daily measurement of stock-exchange prices, based on the average price of a selected number of securities.
- drive to the wall — to force into an awkward situation
- drive up the wall — to cause to become crazy or furious
- drive-by download — an incidence of an unwanted program being automatically downloaded to a computer, often without the user's knowledge
- 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
- 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).
- greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
- harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
- have it both ways — to try to get the best of a situation, argument, etc, by chopping and changing between alternatives or opposites
- have no words for — to be incapable of describing
- inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
- jehovah's witness — A Jehovah's Witness is a member of a religious organization which accepts some Christian ideas and believes that the world is going to end very soon.
- lee harvey oswald — Lee Harvey, 1939–63, designated by a presidential commission to be the lone assassin of John F. Kennedy.
- light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
- longitudinal wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is the same as the direction of propagation, as a sound wave.
- nashville warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, having a gray head, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts.
- nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
- new age traveller — New Age travellers are people who live in tents and vehicles and travel from place to place, and who reject many of the values of modern society.
- observation tower — lookout, observation point
- peak viewing time — the time at which the largest numbers of the population are watching television
- pebbleweave cloth — an irregularly textured material made from twisted yarn
- private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
- revolutionary war — American Revolution.
- small waved umber — a brownish geometrid moth, Horisme vitalbata, that is cryptically marked to merge with tree bark
- spanish civil war — the civil war in Spain 1936–39.
- the twelve tables — the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc
- 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.
- waiver of premium — a provision in a policy establishing specific conditions under which the policy will be kept in force without the policyholder's being required to continue to pay premiums.
- 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.
- wave-cut platform — a flat surface at the base of a cliff formed by erosion by waves
- weeping lovegrass — any grass of the genus Eragrostis, as E. curvula (weeping lovegrass) and E. trichodes (sand lovegrass) cultivated as forage and ground cover.
- well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
- with a heavy hand — in a heavy manner; without delicacy or grace
- wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc
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