14-letter words containing w, e, d, g, h
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
- get with child — to make pregnant
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- great unwashed — the general public; the populace or masses.
- grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
- grow the beard — (of a TV series) to gain credibility or improve in quality during the course of a series following a specified development
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- landing wheels — wheels that a plane lowers when it is going to land
- pitching wedge — a club with a face angle of more than 50°, used for short, lofted pitch shots
- swing the lead — to malinger or make up excuses
- the wild geese — the Irish expatriates who served as professional soldiers with the Catholic powers of Europe, esp France, from the late 17th to the early 20th centuries
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- twelfth-grader — (in the US) a pupil in the twelfth-grade
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- weight density — the weight per unit volume of a substance or object.
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
- wrongful death — the death of a person wrongfully caused, as comprising the grounds of a damage suit.
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