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19-letter words containing w, e, s, t, l, o

  • a law unto yourself — If you say that someone is a law unto himself or herself, you mean that they behave in an independent way, ignoring laws, rules, or conventional ways of doing things.
  • a slap on the wrist — A slap on the wrist is a warning or a punishment that is not very severe.
  • acknowledgment slip — a piece of paper that you sign as proof of having received a letter, parcel, payment, etc
  • backward somersault — a somersault performed in a backward direction with the legs leading the rest of the body
  • beat someone hollow — to defeat someone thoroughly and convincingly
  • blow the whistle on — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
  • buster brown collar — a medium-sized, starched collar with rounded edges, lying flat on the shoulders, worn by women and girls.
  • cash-flow statement — a financial statement that shows a company's cash disbursements and receipts over a given period
  • cast one's lot with — one of a set of objects, as straws or pebbles, drawn or thrown from a container to decide a question or choice by chance.
  • chinese tallow tree — tallow tree.
  • commercial software — (software)   (Or "commercial off-the-shelf software", COTS) Software that is produced for sale. This contrasts with free software, which is produced for free distribution, meaning without charge and/or without restriction on further distribution. Some companies that sell software distribute some (versions) of products free of charge (but usually with restricted distribution rights), this would probably still be called commercial software. Conversely, software that an individual distributes for free, but for which he accepts donations, would still be called free software.
  • conventional wisdom — The conventional wisdom about something is the generally accepted view of it.
  • dependable software — software reliability
  • east-west relations — relations between the United States and its allies in the western alliance and the Soviet Union, it allies and other Communist countries, especially during the period between the end of World War II and the fall of the Soviet regime
  • fellow-servant rule — the common-law rule that the employer is not liable to an employee for injuries resulting from the negligence of a fellow employee.
  • first world problem — a fairly minor problem, frustrating situation, or complaint associated with a relatively high standard of living, as opposed to the more serious problems associated with poverty: I’m bored with all my electronic gadgets—such a first world problem!
  • greenhouse whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • it would be wise to — If someone says to you that it would be wise to do something, they are advising you to do it, because it is the most sensible and reasonable action or decision in a particular situation.
  • let one's hair down — any of the numerous fine, usually cylindrical, keratinous filaments growing from the skin of humans and animals; a pilus.
  • locomotive workshop — a place where locomotives are built or repaired
  • low insertion force — (hardware)   (LIF) PGA/SPGA sockets with no handle. The integrated circuit is simply pushed into the socket, and levered out to remove. Most motherboard processor sockets are now ZIF rather than LIF.
  • mary wollstonecraftMary (Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin) 1759–97, English author and feminist (mother of Mary Shelley).
  • network file system — (networking, operating system)   (NFS) A protocol developed by Sun Microsystems, and defined in RFC 1094, which allows a computer to access files over a network as if they were on its local disks. This protocol has been incorporated in products by more than two hundred companies, and is now a de facto standard. NFS is implemented using a connectionless protocol (UDP) in order to make it stateless. See Nightmare File System, WebNFS.
  • new year resolution — a promise to yourself or decision to do something, especially to improve one's behaviour or lifestyle in some way, during the year ahead
  • newcastle upon tyne1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
  • newtonian telescope — a reflecting telescope in which a mirror or reflecting prism is mounted on the axis near the eyepiece so that the image may be viewed from outside the telescope tube at right angles to the axis.
  • newtown st boswells — a village in SE Scotland, administrative centre of Scottish Borders: agricultural centre. Pop: 1199 (2001)
  • nine plus two array — the arrangement of microtubules in a flagellum or cilium, consisting of a ring of nine evenly spaced couplets surrounding two central singlets. Symbol: 9 + 2.
  • nordrhein-westfalen — German name of North Rhine-Westphalia.
  • north-northwesterly — a wind or storm coming from the north-northwest
  • out at (the) elbows — shabby; poverty-stricken
  • personal watercraft — a jet-propelled boat ridden like a motorcycle.
  • play footsie (with) — to touch feet or rub knees (with) in a caressing way, as under the table
  • sell down the river — a natural stream of water of fairly large size flowing in a definite course or channel or series of diverging and converging channels.
  • so what else is new — not surprised
  • sow one's wild oats — any uncultivated species of Avena, especially a common weedy grass, A. fatua, resembling the cultivated oat.
  • swallow-tailed coat — tail coat.
  • swallow-tailed kite — an American kite, Elanoides forficatus, having black upper parts, white head and underparts, and a long, deeply forked tail.
  • teaching fellowship — a fellowship providing a student in a graduate school with free tuition and expenses and stipulating that the student assume some teaching duties in return.
  • the wolverine state — a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes area of the north central US
  • throw oneself at sb — If someone throws themselves at you, they make it very obvious that they want to begin a relationship with you, by behaving as though they are sexually attracted to you.
  • throw to the wolves — to propel or cast in any way, especially to project or propel from the hand by a sudden forward motion or straightening of the arm and wrist: to throw a ball.
  • tidal power station — a power station where the energy of flowing water is converted into electricity
  • to be headline news — to attract a lot of attention from newspapers
  • to blow a raspberry — If you blow a raspberry, you make a sound by putting your tongue out and blowing, in order to insult someone.
  • to blow the whistle — If you blow the whistle on someone, or on something secret or illegal, you tell another person, especially a person in authority, what is happening.
  • to follow your nose — If you follow your nose to get to a place, you go straight ahead or follow the most obvious route.
  • to let someone know — If you let someone know something, you tell them about it or make sure that they know about it.
  • to plumb new depths — If you say that something plumbs new depths, you mean that it is worse than all the things of its kind that have existed before, even though some of them have been very bad.
  • to wet your whistle — To wet your whistle means to have a drink.

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