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

  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pointer swizzling — swizzle
  • power supply unit — (hardware)   (PSU) An electronic module that converts high voltage (110 or 240 VAC) alternating current mains electricity into smoothed direct current at the various differnt voltages required by the motherboard; internal peripheral devices, cheifly storage devices: hard disks, CD or DVD, floppy disks and external connections such as USB. A PSU needs a high enough power output rating to supply all the devices connected to it and should output as little as possible electrical noise, both on the output wires and as electromagnetic radiation. See also uninterruptable power supply.
  • private ownership — the fact of being owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • put the screws on — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • quality newspaper — a more serious newspaper which gives detailed accounts of world events, as well as reports on business, culture, and society
  • radioactive waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • register of wills — (in some states of the U.S.) the official charged with the probate of wills or with the keeping of the records of the probate court.
  • sanitation worker — a person employed to collect, haul away, and dispose of garbage.
  • sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
  • scattered showers — showers that are scattered across an area, or that occur at intervals throughout the day
  • scentless mayweed — a similar and related plant, Matricaria maritima, with scentless leaves
  • seaweed marquetry — marquetry having the form of symmetrical, foliate scrolls, as on English cabinetwork of the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
  • september weather — weather characteristic of the month of September, esp in being unpredictable as summer is ending and autumn is beginning
  • settlement worker — a person who works with underprivileged people in a settlement house.
  • show sb the ropes — If you show someone the ropes, you show them how to do a particular job or task.
  • shower attachment — a device fixed to taps to make a shower
  • singer-songwriter — A singer-songwriter is someone who writes and performs their own songs, especially popular songs.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • slowly but surely — If you say that something is happening slowly but surely, you mean that it is happening gradually but it is definitely happening.
  • social networking — the development of social and professional contacts; the sharing of information and services among people with a common interest.
  • software engineer — a person who writes computer programs
  • software platform — a major piece of software, as an operating system, an operating environment, or a database, under which various smaller application programs can be designed to run.
  • south west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • south-west africa — a former name of Namibia.
  • southampton water — an inlet of the English Channel in S England
  • southwest by west — a point on the compass 11°15′ west of southwest. Abbreviation: SWbW.
  • spaghetti western — a low-budget western movie shot in Italy or Spain, usually with Italian actors and an American star.
  • stonewall jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
  • store and forward — to store (information) in a computer for later forward transmission through a telecommunication network
  • 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.
  • strawberry blonde — woman: with reddish fair hair
  • strawberry tomato — the small, edible, tomato-like fruit of the plant Physalis pruinosa, of the nightshade family.
  • swaddling clothes — cloth for wrapping around a baby
  • swash plate motor — a collar or face plate on a shaft that is inclined at an oblique angle to the axis of rotation and converts reciprocating motion to rotation
  • sweating sickness — a febrile epidemic disease that appeared in the 15th and 16th centuries: characterized by profuse sweating and frequently fatal in a few hours.
  • sweet mock orange — the syringa, Philadelphus coronarius.
  • teaching software — computer software for use in providing online education
  • tell its own tale — to be self-evident
  • tennessee warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora peregrina, having a gray head, a greenish back, and white underparts.
  • test the water(s) — to explore a possible course of action; approach initially
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • the hawkeye state — a nickname for the US state of Iowa
  • the lower animals — relatively simple or primitive animals and not mammals or vertebrates
  • the lower mammals — relatively simple or primitive mammals
  • the lower regions — hell
  • the new jerusalem — the de facto capital of Israel (recognition of this has been withheld by the United Nations), situated in the Judaean hills: became capital of the Hebrew kingdom after its capture by David around 1000 bc; destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon in 586 bc; taken by the Romans in 63 bc; devastated in 70 ad and 135 ad during the Jewish rebellions against Rome; fell to the Arabs in 637 and to the Seljuk Turks in 1071; ruled by Crusaders from 1099 to 1187 and by the Egyptians and Turks until conquered by the British (1917); centre of the British mandate of Palestine from 1920 to 1948, when the Arabs took the old city and the Jews held the new city; unified after the Six Day War (1967) under the Israelis; the holy city of Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Pop: 693 200 (2003 est)
  • 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 show-me state — the nickname of the US state of Missouri, which comes from its inhabitants' reputation for scepticism
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