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17-letter words containing w, e, n, o, a, h

  • a fly on the wall — If you say that you would like to be a fly on the wall in a situation that does not involve you, you mean that you would like to see or hear what happens in that situation.
  • at their own game — If you beat someone at their own game, you use the same methods that they have used, but more successfully, so that you gain an advantage over them.
  • babe in the woods — a baby or child.
  • broad-winged hawk — an American hawk, Buteo platypterus, dark brown above and white barred with rufous below.
  • charles henry dowCharles Henry, 1851–1902, U.S. journalist and publisher: a founder of Dow Jones company.
  • charles townshendCharles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.
  • circle the wagons — to take defensive action; prepare for an attack: from arranging a wagon train in a circular formation
  • consumer watchdog — an organization or government agency that campaigns for consumers
  • cromwellian chair — an upright oaken chair, often with arms, having all pieces turned and a seat and back panel of leather or cloth attached with brass-headed nails.
  • deepwater horizon — an offshore oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 40 miles (64km) south-east off the coast of Louisiana, that suffered a massive oil spill following an explosion in April 2010
  • down-at-the-heels — of a shabby, run-down appearance; seedy: He is rapidly becoming a down-at-heel drifter and a drunk.
  • drawn-thread work — ornamental needlework done by drawing threads out of the fabric and using the remaining threads to form lacelike patterns
  • eastern townships — an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • flower-of-an-hour — a malvaceous Old World herbaceous plant, Hibiscus trionum, having pale yellow flowers with a bladder-like calyx
  • fort walton beach — a city in NW Florida.
  • george washington — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • go down the drain — to withdraw or draw off (a liquid) gradually; remove slowly or by degrees, as by filtration: to drain oil from a crankcase.
  • great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • have no words for — to be incapable of describing
  • hoare powerdomain — powerdomain
  • how the land lies — the prevailing conditions or state of affairs
  • in/with regard to — You can use with regard to or in regard to to indicate the subject that is being talked or written about.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • law of the jungle — a system or mode of action in which the strongest survive, presumably as animals in nature or as human beings whose activity is not regulated by the laws or ethics of civilization.
  • minion of the law — a policeman.
  • mount fairweather — a mountain in W North America, on the border between Alaska and British Columbia. Height: 4663 m (15 300 ft)
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • north-wall hammer — a type of ice axe that has a hammer as part of its head
  • northwest passage — a ship route along the Arctic coast of Canada and Alaska, joining the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • on the wrong tack — a short, sharp-pointed nail, usually with a flat, broad head.
  • open-channel flow — Open-channel flow is a liquid flow in a channel, which has a free liquid surface.
  • pacific northwest — the region of North America lying north of the Columbia River and west of the Rockies
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • quick on the draw — having fast reflexes
  • rub the wrong way — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • 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.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • to throw a wrench — If someone throws a wrench or throws a monkey wrench into a process, they prevent something happening smoothly by deliberately causing a problem.

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