21-letter words containing w, f, t
- thin end of the wedge — anything unimportant in itself that implies the start of something much larger
- to lay down your life — If someone lays down their life for another person, they die so that the other person can live.
- to my way of thinking — You add to my way of thinking to a statement in order to indicate that you are giving your opinion.
- to set foot somewhere — If you say that someone sets foot in a place, you mean that they enter it or reach it, and you are emphasizing the significance of their action. If you say that someone never sets foot in a place, you are emphasizing that they never go there.
- traffic control tower — an elevated structure for the visual observation and control of the air and ground traffic at an airport
- venus's flower basket — a glass sponge of the genus Euplectella, inhabiting deep waters off the Philippines and Japan, having a cylindrical skeleton formed of an intricate latticework of siliceous spicules.
- warm silence software — A small company run by(?) Robin Watts, producing software for the Acorn Archimedes.
- water of constitution — water present in a molecule that cannot be removed without disrupting the molecule.
- what the future holds — If you wonder what the future holds, you wonder what will happen in the future.
- whip-and-tongue graft — a graft prepared by cutting both the scion and the stock in a sloping direction and inserting a tongue in the scion into a slit in the stock.
- wildlife photographer — someone that specializes in taking photographs of wild animals, especially in their natural habitats, and plants
- window of opportunity — limited chance to do sth
- with the exception of — except for, save
- without qualification — If something is stated or accepted without qualification, it is stated or accepted as it is, without the need for any changes.
- writ of habeas corpus — law: petition for hearing
- yellow-fever mosquito — a mosquito, Aedes aegypti, that transmits yellow fever and dengue.