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17-letter words containing w, h, e, l

  • light heavyweight — a boxer or other contestant intermediate in weight between a middleweight and a heavyweight, especially a professional boxer weighing up to 175 pounds (80 kg).
  • lowbush blueberry — a shrub, Vaccinium angustifolium, of eastern North America, having small, white flowers and blue-black fruit.
  • lower forty-eight — the forty-eight conterminous states of the United States
  • lower paleolithic — See under Paleolithic.
  • may/might as well — If you say that you might as well do something, or that you may as well do it, you mean that you will do it although you do not have a strong desire to do it and may even feel slightly unwilling to do it.
  • metabolic pathway — biochemistry: sequence of reactions within a cell or organism
  • middle of nowhere — a completely isolated, featureless, or insignificant place
  • minion of the law — a policeman.
  • mother spleenwort — a fern, Asplenium bulbiferum, of tropical Africa and Australasia, the fronds often bearing bulbils that sprout into new plants while still attached, grown as an ornamental.
  • narrow-shouldered — having shoulders which do not extend very far from the neck; not broad-shouldered
  • nashville warbler — a North American wood warbler, Vermivora ruficapilla, having a gray head, an olive-green back, and yellow underparts.
  • new english bible — an English translation (1970) of the Bible into contemporary idiom, directed by Anglican and other Protestant churches of Great Britain.
  • north-wall hammer — a type of ice axe that has a hammer as part of its head
  • open-channel flow — Open-channel flow is a liquid flow in a channel, which has a free liquid surface.
  • out at the elbows — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • pebbleweave cloth — an irregularly textured material made from twisted yarn
  • pincushion flower — scabious2 (def 1).
  • play with oneself — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
  • pull one's weight — the amount or quantity of heaviness or mass; amount a thing weighs.
  • roof of the world — Tibet, Plateau of.
  • rough-legged hawk — a large hawk, Buteo lagopus, of the Northern Hemisphere, that feeds chiefly on small rodents.
  • schwedler's maple — a variety of the Norway maple, Acer platanoides schwedleri, producing red leaves that subsequently turn green.
  • sheepswool sponge — wool sponge.
  • slap on the wrist — a sharp blow or smack, especially with the open hand or with something flat.
  • spin one's wheels — a circular frame or disk arranged to revolve on an axis, as on or in vehicles or machinery.
  • squaw huckleberry — deerberry.
  • 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
  • technical drawing — the study and practice, esp as a subject taught in school, of the basic techniques of draughtsmanship, as employed in mechanical drawing, architecture, etc
  • the final whistle — a blast on a referee's whistle to indicate that a game is over
  • 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 twelve tables — the earliest code of Roman civil, criminal, and religious law, promulgated in 451–450 bc
  • the unwritten law — the tradition that a person may avenge any insult to family integrity, as used to justify criminal acts of vengeance
  • the whole boiling — the whole lot
  • the whole shebang — The whole shebang is the whole situation or business that you are describing.
  • thermal underwear — underwear designed to retain body heat in cold temperatures.
  • three-strikes law — a law that mandates a life sentence to a felon convicted for the third time.
  • to oil the wheels — If someone or something oils the wheels of a process or system, they help things to run smoothly and successfully.
  • to play with fire — If you say that someone is playing with fire, you mean that they are doing something dangerous that may result in great harm for them and cause many problems.
  • to steal the show — If you say that someone steals the show, you mean that they get a lot of attention or praise because they perform better than anyone else in a show or other event.
  • turkish towelling — woven cloth which is used to make towels, wash cloths, etc
  • twelfth amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1804, providing for election of the president and vice president by the electoral college: should there be no majority vote for one person, the House of Representatives (one vote per state) chooses the president and the Senate the vice president.
  • twelve patriarchs — any of the sons of Jacob ((the twelve patriarchs),) from whom the tribes of Israel were descended.
  • walk a chalk line — to behave with strict propriety or obedience
  • walk on eggshells — to be very cautious or diplomatic for fear of upsetting someone
  • wall street crash — the dramatic collapse of share prices on the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929, an important factor in the early stages of the Depression
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