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17-letter words containing w, e, s, t, r, i

  • south-west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • 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.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the outside world — You can use the outside world to refer to all the people who do not live in a particular place or who are not involved in a particular situation.
  • the winter season — the season of the year that covers the winter months
  • thirty years' war — the war, often regarded as a series of wars (1618–48), in central Europe, initially involving a conflict between German Protestants and Catholics and later including political rivalries with France, Sweden, and Denmark opposing the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
  • three-strikes law — a law that mandates a life sentence to a felon convicted for the third time.
  • tiger swallowtail — a yellow swallowtail butterfly, Papilio glaucus, of eastern North America, having the forewings striped with black.
  • top-security wing — a wing of a prison, mental hospital, etc that has a very high level of precautions against escape
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • 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.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • waist measurement — a measure of the circumference of the narrowest part of a person's waist
  • wang laboratories — (body)   Computer manufacturer, known for their office automation products and the Wang PC. Quarterly sales $208M, profits $3M (Aug 1994).
  • war establishment — the full wartime complement of men, equipment, and vehicles of a military unit
  • wardrobe mistress — a woman in charge of keeping theatrical costumes cleaned, pressed, and in wearable condition.
  • warehouse receipt — a receipt for goods placed in a warehouse.
  • warehousing costs — the costs involved in storing goods in a warehouse
  • warsaw convention — a multilateral treaty on aviation set up chiefly to limit air carriers' liability to passengers and shippers on international flights in the event of an accident.
  • washington square — a short novel (1881) by Henry James.
  • weapons inspector — a person who inspects a country's weapons
  • weather satellite — meteorological satellite.
  • weather-resistant — resisting the effects of severe weather, as rain or cold: weather-resistant cloth for topcoats.
  • wedding breakfast — meal served at wedding reception
  • west three rivers — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
  • western australia — a state in W Australia. 975,920 sq. mi. (2,527,635 sq. km). Capital: Perth.
  • westminster abbey — a Gothic church in London, England.
  • wheatstone bridge — a circuit for measuring an unknown resistance by comparing it with known resistances.
  • whistler's mother — (formal name, Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother) a painting (1871) by James McNeill Whistler.
  • wild service tree — either of two European trees, Sorbus domestica, bearing a small, acid fruit that is edible when overripe, or S. torminalis (wild service tree) bearing a similar fruit.
  • wimshurst machine — a device for the production of electric charge by electrostatic induction, consisting of two oppositely rotating glass or mica disks carrying metal strips upon which charges are induced and subsequently removed by contact with metallic combs.
  • winchester bushel — a unit of dry measure containing 4 pecks, equivalent in the U.S. (and formerly in England) to 2150.42 cubic inches or 35.24 liters (Winchester bushel) and in Great Britain to 2219.36 cubic inches or 36.38 liters (Imperial bushel) Abbreviation: bu., bush.
  • winding staircase — long set of spiral stairs
  • wireless internet — access to the internet without a cable
  • wireless operator — a radio operator
  • wood preservative — a coating applied to timber as a protection against decay, insects, weather, etc
  • working substance — a substance, usually a fluid, that undergoes changes in pressure, temperature, volume, or form as part of a process for accomplishing work.
  • worth one's while — a period or interval of time: to wait a long while; He arrived a short while ago.
  • wuthering heights — a novel (1846) by Emily Brontë.
  • yellowstone river — river flowing from NW Wyo. through Mont. into the Missouri River: 671 mi (1,080 km)
  • zebra swallowtail — a swallowtail butterfly, Papilio marcellus, having black and greenish-white stripes on the wings.
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