22-letter words containing w, e, i, g
- (with) tongue in cheek — in a humorously ironic, mocking, or insincere way
- andrew jackson downing — Andrew Jackson, 1815–52, U.S. landscape architect.
- blue-winged kookaburra — a related smaller bird D. Leachii, of tropical Australia and New Guinea
- bring down the curtain — If something brings down the curtain on an event or situation, it causes or marks the end of it.
- bristle-thighed curlew — an Alaskan curlew, Numenius tahitiensis, that winters in Polynesia, having bristlelike feathers on its thighs.
- buffered write-through — (memory management) A variation of write-through where the cache uses a "write buffer" to hold data being written back to main memory. This frees the cache to service read requests while the write is taking place. There is usually only one stage of buffering so subsequent writes must wait until the first is complete. Most accesses are reads so buffered write-through is only useful for very slow main memory.
- come up with the goods — If you deliver the goods or come up with the goods, you do what is expected or required of you.
- cotton-wool generation — the children and teenagers of the early 21st century, viewed as having been overprotected while growing up
- dashing white sergeant — a lively Scottish dance for sets of six people
- de broglie wave length — the postulate of wave mechanics that a particle of mass m moving at a velocity v will have the properties of a wave of wavelength h / mv (de Broglie wavelength) where h is Planck's constant.
- 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.
- flushed with something — very excited because of some success or triumph
- fringed with something — having a specified thing around the edge
- get (or have) wind of — to get (or have) information or a hint concerning; hear (or know) of
- get a word in edgeways — to succeed in interrupting a conversation in which someone else is talking incessantly
- get a word in edgewise — with the edge forward; in the direction of the edge.
- get/come to grips with — If you get to grips with a problem or if you come to grips with it, you consider it seriously, and start taking action to deal with it.
- give a person what for — to punish or reprimand a person severely
- give someone the works — to murder someone
- give something a whirl — to attempt or give a trial to something
- go their separate ways — When two or more people who have been together for some time go their separate ways, they go to different places or end their relationship.
- golden-crowned kinglet — a yellowish-green kinglet, Regulus satrapa, of North America, having a yellow or orange patch on the top of the head.
- governor winthrop desk — an 18th-century American desk having a slant front.
- 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
- graph rewriting system — An extension of a term rewriting system which uses graph reduction on terms represented by directed graphs to avoid duplication of work by sharing expressions.
- gross written premiums — Gross written premiums are the total revenue from a contract expected to be received by an insurer before deductions for reinsurance or ceding commissions.
- 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
- handle with kid gloves — grant special treatment to
- highway contract route — a route for carrying mail over the highway between designated points, given on contract to a private carrier and often requiring, in rural areas, delivery to home mailboxes. Abbreviation: HCR.
- in/within sb's hearing — If someone says something in your hearing or within your hearing, you can hear what they say because they are with you or near you.
- investigative new drug — a regulatory classification assigned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to an unproven drug, allowing its use in approved studies with human patients. Abbreviation: IND.
- jackpot winning ticket — a ticket that contains all the winning numbers in a lottery etc, allowing the owner of the ticket to claim the jackpot prize
- 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.
- limited access highway — expressway
- 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.
- name service switching — Domain Name System
- netherlands new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- nigger in the woodpile — a hidden snag or hindrance
- nodal switching system — (NSS) Main routing nodes in the NSFnet backbone.
- on a wing and a prayer — with only the slightest hope of succeeding
- open network computing — (ONC) Sun's network protocols.
- portuguese west africa — a republic in SW Africa: formerly an overseas province of Portugal; gained independence Nov. 11, 1975. 481,226 sq. mi. (1,246,375 sq. km). Capital: Luanda.
- prawn-sandwich brigade — sports fans who are perceived to lack passion and commitment, and who it is supposed attend matches in order to eat food and buy merchandise rather than cheer on their team
- search the fucking web — (web, jargon) (Always abbreviated STFW) A response implying that an inquirer could have easily found an answer to his question using Google or some other web search engine. It is now often quicker and more productive to search the World-Wide Web than to RTFM.
- self-sustaining growth — economic growth that maintains itself without intervention
- 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
- 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).
- the-leaning-tower-pisa — a round, marble campanile in Pisa, Italy, begun in 1174 and now 17 feet (5.2 meters) out of the perpendicular in its height of 179 feet (54 meters).
- to awaken to something — to become aware of something
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