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16-letter words containing w, h, e, l, i, n

  • alligator wrench — a wrench having a V -shaped pair of serrated jaws set at right angles to the shank for turning cylindrical or irregularly shaped parts.
  • bleaching powder — a white powder with the odour of chlorine, consisting of chlorinated calcium hydroxide with an approximate formula CaCl(OCl).4H2O. It is used in solution as a bleaching agent and disinfectant
  • chemical weapons — toxic chemicals used as weapons
  • chinese snowball — a Chinese shrub, Viburnum macrocephalum, of the honeysuckle family, having scurfy, hairy twigs, hairy leaves, and white flowers in large, showy, globelike clusters.
  • chinese windlass — differential windlass
  • chinese wood oil — tung oil.
  • cog in the wheel — small part of a large system
  • dyed-in-the-wool — through and through; complete: a dyed-in-the-wool reformer.
  • eighteen-wheeler — a tractor-trailer having eighteen wheels
  • firewall machine — (networking, security)   A dedicated gateway server with special security precautions on it, used to service external connections (typically from the public Internet). The firewall machine protects servers and networks hidden behind it from crackers. The typical firewall is an inexpensive microprocessor-based Unix machine with no critical data, with public network ports on it, but just one carefully watched connection back to the rest of the cluster. The special precautions may include threat monitoring, call-back, and even a complete iron box keyable to particular incoming IDs or activity patterns. The type of network and security environment of a firewall machine is often called a De-Militarised Zone (DMZ). It may contain other servers such as e-mail servers or proxy gateways - machines that need to be publicly accessible but also need some access to internal systems. Also known as a (Venus) flytrap after the insect-eating plant.
  • growth potential — capability of expanding
  • hesitation waltz — a waltz based on the frequent use of a step that consists of a pause and glide.
  • hole in the wall — an opening through something; gap; aperture: a hole in the roof; a hole in my sock.
  • hole-in-the-wall — A hole-in-the-wall machine is a machine built into the wall of a bank or other building, which allows people to take out money from their bank account by using a special card.
  • hopfield network — (artificial intelligence)   (Or "Hopfield model") A kind of neural network investigated by John Hopfield in the early 1980s. The Hopfield network has no special input or output neurons (see McCulloch-Pitts), but all are both input and output, and all are connected to all others in both directions (with equal weights in the two directions). Input is applied simultaneously to all neurons which then output to each other and the process continues until a stable state is reached, which represents the network output.
  • in lockstep with — progressing at exactly the same speed and in the same direction as other people or things, esp as a matter of course rather than by choice
  • in the meanwhile — until then, for now
  • invisible shadow — (in architectural shades and shadows) a three-dimensional space occupied by the shadow projected by a solid and within which a surface is in shadow.
  • javelin throwing — the sport of throwing the javelin
  • john wheelwrightJohn, 1592?–1679, English clergyman in America.
  • junior flyweight — a boxer weighing up to 108 pounds (48.6 kg), between minimumweight and flyweight.
  • knuckle sandwich — a punch in the mouth with a clenched fist.
  • lewis and harris — the northernmost island of the Hebrides, in NW Scotland. 825 sq. mi. (2135 sq. km).
  • lord howe island — an island in the S Pacific, E of Australia: a dependency of New South Wales. 5 sq. mi. (13 sq. km).
  • machine washable — suitable for washing in a washing machine
  • matthew flindersMatthew, 1774–1814, English navigator and explorer: surveyed coast of Australia.
  • new philadelphia — a city in E Ohio.
  • nightingale ward — a long hospital ward with beds on either side and the nurses' station in the middle
  • otherworldliness — The quality of being otherworldly.
  • overwhelmingness — that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • swedish vallhund — a small sturdy dog of a Swedish breed with a long body and pricked pointed ears
  • sweeten the pill — If someone does something to sweeten the pill or sugar the pill, they do it to make some unpleasant news or an unpleasant measure more acceptable.
  • the little woman — one's wife
  • the weakest link — the person who is making the least contribution to the collective achievement of a group
  • this-worldliness — concern or preoccupation with worldly things and values.
  • to draw the line — If you draw the line at a particular activity, you refuse to do it, because you disapprove of it or because it is more extreme than what you normally do.
  • unpublished work — a literary work that has not been reproduced for sale or publicly distributed.
  • wheel animalcule — a rotifer.
  • wheelchair-bound — unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relying on a wheelchair to move around
  • whirling dervish — a member of a Turkish order of dervishes, or Sufis, whose ritual consists in part of a highly stylized whirling dance.
  • white sandalwood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • white settlement — a town in N Texas.
  • whole nine yards — a common unit of linear measure in English-speaking countries, equal to 3 feet or 36 inches, and equivalent to 0.9144 meter.
  • wiener schnitzel — Viennese Cookery. a breaded veal cutlet, variously seasoned or garnished.
  • wild honeysuckle — pinxter flower.
  • winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
  • windowpane shell — capiz.
  • windshield wiper — an electrically or pneumatically operated device consisting of a squeegee connected to a mechanical arm designed to wipe off rain, snow, etc., from a windshield or rear window.
  • wish fulfillment — gratification of desires.

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