22-letter words containing w, c, l
- american water spaniel — any of a breed of spaniel with a curly, reddish or dark-brown coat, used as a retriever, esp. of waterfowl
- approved social worker — (in England) a qualified social worker specially trained in mental-health work, who is approved by his employing local authority to apply for a mentally disordered person to be admitted to hospital and detained there, or to apply for the person to be received into the guardianship of the local authority
- backward combatability — (humour) /bak'w*d k*m-bat'*-bil'*-tee/ (Play on "backward compatibility") A property of hardware or software revisions in which previous protocols, formats, layouts, etc. are irrevocably discarded in favour of "new and improved" protocols, formats and layouts, leaving the previous ones not merely deprecated but actively defeated. (Too often, the old and new versions cannot definitively be distinguished, such that lingering instances of the previous ones yield crashes or other infelicitous effects, as opposed to a simple "version mismatch" message.) A backward compatible change, on the other hand, allows old versions to coexist without crashes or error messages, but too many major changes incorporating elaborate backward compatibility processing can lead to extreme software bloat. See also flag day.
- backward compatibility — (jargon) Able to share data or commands with older versions of itself, or sometimes other older systems, particularly systems it intends to supplant. Sometimes backward compatibility is limited to being able to read old data but does not extend to being able to write data in a format that can be read by old versions. For example, WordPerfect 6.0 can read WordPerfect 5.1 files, so it is backward compatible. It can be said that Perl is backward compatible with awk, because Perl was (among other things) intended to replace awk, and can, with a converter, run awk programs. See also: backward combatability. Compare: forward compatible.
- born in/out of wedlock — If a baby is born in wedlock, it is born while its parents are married. If it is born out of wedlock, it is born at a time when its parents are not married.
- bristle-thighed curlew — an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in Polynesia, having bristlelike feathers on its thighs.
- cast in one's lot with — to share in the activities or fortunes of (someone else)
- cavity wall insulation — insulation injected into the space between cavity walls
- committee of the whole — (in the US) all the members of the House of Representatives, regarded as a committee
- continuous welded rail — a long, continuous rail formed by welding many short rails.
- cotton-wool generation — the children and teenagers of the early 21st century, viewed as having been overprotected while growing up
- double blackwall hitch — a kind of knot
- financial underwriting — Financial underwriting is the process of assessing whether the proposed sum insured and product are reasonable when considering the possible financial loss to the client.
- golden-crowned kinglet — a yellowish-green kinglet, Regulus satrapa, of North America, having a yellow or orange patch on the top of the head.
- graeco-roman wrestling — a style of wrestling in which the legs may not be used to obtain a fall and no hold may be applied below the waist
- gulf of saint lawrence — a deep arm of the Atlantic off the E coast of Canada between Newfoundland and the mainland coasts of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
- halfwave rectification — a rectifier that changes only one half of a cycle of alternating current into a pulsating, direct current.
- keep one's own counsel — advice; opinion or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another.
- label switching router — (networking) (LSR) A device that typically resides somewhere in the middle of a network and is capable of forwarding datagrams by label switching. In many cases, especially early versions of MPLS networks, a LSR will typically be a modified ATM switch that forwards datagrams based upon a label in the VPI/VCI field.
- law enforcement agency — an organization responsible for enforcing the law, such as a police or sheriff department
- law of excluded middle — the principle that any proposition must be either true or false.
- limited access highway — expressway
- lower canada rebellion — an uprising of 1837, quickly crushed by the British militia, against the British colonial administration in Quebec.
- lowest common multiple — the smallest number that is a common multiple of a given set of numbers.
- make allowances for sb — If you make allowances for someone, you accept behaviour which you would not normally accept or deal with them less severely than you would normally, because of a problem that they have.
- manhattan clam chowder — a chowder made from clams, tomatoes, and other vegetables and seasoned with thyme.
- maxwell air force base — U.S. Air Force installation in SE central Alabama, NW of Montgomery: site of U.S. Air Force Advanced School.
- mpeg-2 aac low profile — (compression, standard, algorithm, file format) A successor of MP3 allowing transparent coding at data rates of 75-80% of that of MP3. It is very different from MP3, only used MDCT, no subband coding.
- nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
- overstay one's welcome — to stay (at a party, on a visit, etc), longer than pleases the host or hostess
- paddle one's own canoe — any of various slender, open boats, tapering to a point at both ends, propelled by paddles or sometimes sails and traditionally formed of light framework covered with bark, skins, or canvas, or formed from a dug-out or burned-out log or logs, and now usually made of aluminum, fiberglass, etc.
- planck's radiation law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- prince edward islander — a native or inhabitant of Prince Edward Island
- prince of wales island — the largest island in the Alexander Archipelago, in SE Alaska. 1500 sq. mi. (3990 sq. km).
- public domain software — public domain
- sail close to the wind — air in natural motion, as that moving horizontally at any velocity along the earth's surface: A gentle wind blew through the valley. High winds were forecast.
- sb can whistle for sth — If you say that someone can whistle for a particular thing, you mean that you are not willing or able to give it to them.
- sir william blackstone — Sir William, 1723–80, English jurist and writer on law.
- social justice warrior — Disparaging. a person who advocates a progressive orthodoxy, often on the Internet, especially involving the treatment of ethnic, racial, gender, or gender-identity minorities. Abbreviation: SJW.
- social networking site — a website that allows subscribers to interact, typically by requesting that others add them to their visible list of contacts, by forming or joining sub-groups based around shared interests, or publishing content so that a specified group of subscribers can access it
- south sandwich islands — a group of volcanic islands, administered by England, in the South Atlantic Ocean: part of the Falkland Islands dependency. 120 sq. mi. (310 sq. km).
- special drawing rights — the reserve assets of the International Monetary Fund on which member nations may draw in proportion to their contribution to the Fund
- special marine warning — a National Weather Service warning of high-wind conditions at sea that are expected to last for up to two hours, and generally result from convective storm systems, as thunderstorms or squall lines. Compare warning (def 3).
- sweet william catchfly — a southern European plant, Silene armeria, of the pink family, having a flat-topped cluster of pink flowers.
- unconventional warfare — warfare that is conducted within enemy lines through guerrilla tactics or subversion, usually supported at least in part by external forces.
- villingen-schwenningen — a city in Baden-Württemberg in SW Germany, on the E edge of the Black Forest.
- wear out one's welcome — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- west greenland current — an ocean current flowing northward along the west coast of Greenland.
- whitchurch-stouffville — a town in SW Ontario, in S Canada, N of Toronto.
- white australia policy — an unofficial term for an immigration policy designed to restrict the entry of non-White people into Australia
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