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17-letter words containing w, e, r, g

  • andrew fluegelman — (person)   A successful attorney, editor of PC World Magazine, and author of the MS-DOS communications program PC-TALK III, written in 1982. He once owned the trademark "freeware" but it wasn't enforced after his disappearance. In 1985, Fluegelman was diagnosed with cancer. He was last seen a week later, on 1985-07-06, when he left his Marin County home to go to his office in Tiburon. He called his wife later that day and has not been heard from since. His car was found at Vista Point on the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge.
  • answering machine — An answering machine is the same as an answerphone.
  • answering pennant — one of the flags of the International Code of Signals, a pennant of three red and two white vertical stripes, flown at the dip while a message is being interpreted and close up when it is understood.
  • answering service — a business that answers telephone calls on behalf of another business or organization, taking messages from and providing information to callers
  • 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.
  • baden-wurttemberg — a state of SW Germany. Capital: Stuttgart. Pop: 53 938 (2003 est). Area: 35 742 sq km (13 800 sq miles)
  • bar-tailed godwit — a large wader, Limosa lapponica, of the family Scolopacidae which, in migrating from Alaska to New Zealand, makes the longest journey without stopping for food taken by any animal
  • barbed-wire grass — an aromatic grass, Cymbopogon refractus, with groups of seed heads resembling barbed wire
  • breakdown voltage — the minimum applied voltage that would cause a given insulator or electrode to break down.
  • broad-winged hawk — an American hawk, Buteo platypterus, dark brown above and white barred with rufous below.
  • broadview heights — a town in N Ohio.
  • browserconfig.xml — (web)   A Microsoft configuration file used to customise the appearance and behaviour of website links pinned to the Windows start screen or desktop taskbar. browserconfig.xml allows the site owner to specify things like badges and tile images.
  • celebrity wedding — a wedding of famous people, usually reported at length in celebrity magazines
  • 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
  • contingent worker — a temporary or contract worker, especially one hired for one task or project.
  • converged network — (networking)   A single network that can carry voice, video and data.
  • dow jones average — The Dow Jones Average is a daily measurement of stock-exchange prices, based on the average price of a selected number of securities.
  • dyer-s--greenweed — woadwaxen.
  • edgar watson howe — E(dgar) W(atson) 1853–1937, U.S. novelist and editor.
  • edward fitzgeraldEdward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
  • flowering currant — an ornamental shrub, Ribes sanguineum, growing to 2 to 3 metres (6 to 9ft) in height, with red, crimson, yellow, or white flowers: family Saxifragaceae
  • flowering dogwood — a North American dogwood tree, Cornus florida, having small greenish flowers in the spring, surrounded by white or pink bracts that resemble petals: the state flower and the state tree of Virginia.
  • flowering tobacco — any plant belonging to the genus Nicotiana, of the nightshade family, as N. alata and N. sylvestris, having clusters of fragrant flowers that usually bloom at night, grown as an ornamental.
  • freewill offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
  • freight forwarder — a person or firm that arranges to pick up or deliver goods on instructions of a shipper or a consignee from or to a point by various necessary conveyances and common carriers.
  • garden strawberry — a plant which has white flowers and red edible fruits and is spread by runners, Fragaria ananassa
  • general knowledge — commonly known facts
  • 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.
  • george whitefieldGeorge, 1714–70, English Methodist evangelist.
  • give to the world — to publish
  • glory-of-the-snow — any of several plants belonging to the genus Chionodoxa, of the lily family, native to the Old World, having showy, blue, white, or pink flowers that bloom early in the spring.
  • 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 awakening's — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great vowel shift — a series of changes in the quality of the long vowels between Middle and Modern English as a result of which all were raised, while the high vowels (ē) and (o̅o̅), already at the upper limit, underwent breaking to become the diphthongs (ī) and (ou).
  • great white heron — a large white heron, Ardea occidentalis, of Florida and the Florida Keys.
  • great white shark — a large shark, Carcharodon carcharias, of tropical and temperate seas, known to occasionally attack swimmers.
  • great willow herb — either of two tall, large-flowered willow herbs, Epilobium angustifolium or E. hirsutum.
  • great-grandnephew — a grandson of one's nephew or niece.
  • greater spearwort — a Eurasian ranunculaceous plant, Ranunculus lingua, which grows in wet places and has long narrow leaves and yellow flowers
  • green-winged teal — a small freshwater duck, Anas crecca, of Eurasia and North America, having an iridescent green speculum in the wing.
  • greenwich village — a section of New York City, in lower Manhattan: inhabited and frequented by artists, writers, and students.
  • guardhouse lawyer — a person in military service, especially an inmate of a guardhouse or brig, who is or claims to be an authority on military law, regulations, and soldiers' rights.
  • guerrilla warfare — the use of hit-and-run tactics by small, mobile groups of irregular forces operating in territory controlled by a hostile, regular force.
  • guinea-hen flower — checkered lily.
  • gulf war syndrome — a group of symptoms occurring in some Gulf War veterans, most commonly including headache and memory loss, muscle pain, skin disorders, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal and respiratory ailments, possibly caused by exposure to chemical weapons, vaccines, infectious diseases, or other factors.
  • hardware register — (hardware, system administration)   (Or "hardware log") A list of all hardware, both internal and external, that is attached to a particular computer.
  • harvey wallbanger — a screwdriver cocktail topped with Galliano.
  • high-tensile wire — wire which can withstand great strain without breaking or becoming deformed
  • highways engineer — a civil engineer trained and specialized in the planning, construction, maintenance, etc of highways and roads

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