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17-letter words containing w, e, d, i, n, s

  • american wormseed — a plant with seeds used in medicine to treat worm infestation, Chenopodium ambrosioides
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • blackwells island — a former name of Roosevelt Island.
  • breakdown service — a service that provides assistance to motorists who break down
  • bull's-eye window — bull's-eye (def 7).
  • close to the wind — sailing as nearly as possible towards the direction from which the wind is blowing
  • closing-down sale — a sale held to clear stock from a shop that is ceasing to operate
  • consolidated laws — a body of laws collected together in a single codifying statute
  • darwinian fitness — fitness (def 3).
  • darwinian-fitness — health.
  • down in the dumps — If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
  • dress-down friday — In some companies employees are allowed to wear clothes that are less smart than usual on a Friday. This day is known as a dress-down Friday.
  • dutch west indies — a Netherlands overseas territory in the Caribbean Sea, N and NE of Venezuela; includes the islands of Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, and St. Eustatius, and the S part of St. Martin: considered an integral part of the Dutch realm. 366 sq. mi. (948 sq. km). Capital: Willemstad.
  • explosion welding — the welding of two parts forced together by a controlled explosion
  • get one's wind up — to become (or be) nervous or alarmed
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • in the wilderness — If politicians or other well-known people spend time in the wilderness, they are not in an influential position or very active in their profession for that time.
  • indian strawberry — a plant, Duchesnea indica, of the rose family, native to India, having yellow flowers and inedible fruit resembling strawberries.
  • interrupted screw — a screw having the thread interrupted in one or more places by longitudinal channels, as in the breech of a cannon or the lead screw of a lathe.
  • inward investment — Inward investment is the investment of money in a country by companies from outside that country.
  • isherwood framing — a system for framing steel vessels in which light, closely spaced, longitudinal frames are connected by heavy, widely spaced transverse frames with deep webs.
  • kawasaki syndrome — a syndrome, usually afflicting children, characterized by high fever, swollen lymph nodes in the neck, rashes, irritated eyes and mucous membranes, etc. with possible damage to the cardiovascular system
  • ladies-in-waiting — plural of lady-in-waiting.
  • lick one's wounds — an injury, usually involving division of tissue or rupture of the integument or mucous membrane, due to external violence or some mechanical agency rather than disease.
  • newcastle disease — a rapidly spreading virus-induced disease of birds and domestic fowl, as chickens, marked by respiratory difficulty, reduced egg production and, in chicks, paralysis.
  • nine days' wonder — an event or thing that arouses considerable but short-lived interest or excitement.
  • one-time password — (security)   (OTP) A security system that requires a new password every time a user authenticates themselves, thus protecting against an intruder replaying an intercepted password. OTP generates passwords using either the MD4 or MD5 hashing algorithms. The equivalent term "S/Key", developed by Bellcore, is a trademark of Telcordia Technologies, so the name OTP is used increasingly. See RFC 1760 - "The S/KEY One-Time Password System" and RFC 1938 - "A One-Time Password System".
  • secondary rainbow — a faint rainbow formed by light rays that undergo two internal reflections in drops of rain, appearing above the primary rainbow and having its colors in the opposite order.
  • secondary winding — A secondary winding is the winding of a transformer that receives its energy by electromagnetic induction from the primary winding.
  • sidewall sampling — Sidewall sampling is the process of taking a sample from the wall of the borehole.
  • spiny-headed worm — any of a small group of endoparasites of the phylum Acanthocephala, as larvae parasitic in insects and crustaceans and as adults in various vertebrates.
  • spread your wings — if you spread your wings, you do something new and rather difficult or move to a new place, because you feel more confident in your abilities than you used to and you want to gain wider experience
  • straw in the wind — If you say that an incident or piece of news is a straw in the wind, you mean that it gives an indication of what might happen in the future.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • turn-down service — In a hotel, a turn-down service is the preparation of a room for a guest to sleep in by slightly turning back the comforter on the bed, turning down the lights, and so on.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • weigh one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • well-investigated — to examine, study, or inquire into systematically; search or examine into the particulars of; examine in detail.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • williams syndrome — an abnormality in the genes involved in calcium metabolism, resulting in learning difficulties
  • winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
  • windowglass shell — capiz.
  • windows messaging — (messaging)   Microsoft's Internet electronic mail application, formerly called Microsoft Exchange.
  • windscreen washer — a small nozzle on the bonnet of a motor vehicle, from which jets of water are squirted electronically onto the windscreen to help clean it
  • wings of the dove — a novel (1902) by Henry James.
  • wring one's hands — If someone wrings their hands, they hold them together and twist and turn them, usually because they are very worried or upset about something. You can also say that someone is wringing their hands when they are expressing sorrow that a situation is so bad but are saying that they are unable to change it.

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