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20-letter words containing w, h, e, n, s

  • absent without leave — absent from duty without official permission but with no intention of deserting
  • at two hours' notice — with notification only two hours in advance
  • back the wrong horse — to bet on a horse that loses the race
  • be getting somewhere — If you say that you are getting somewhere, you mean that you are making progress towards achieving something.
  • bring down the house — to receive enthusiastic applause from the audience
  • bring the house down — to win great applause
  • collective ownership — ownership by a group for the benefit of members of that group
  • come out in the wash — If you say that something will come out in the wash, you mean that people will eventually find out the truth about it.
  • commonwealth hackish — (jargon)   Hacker jargon as spoken outside the US, especially in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like "char" and "soc", etc., as spelled (/char/, /sok/), as opposed to American /keir/ and /sohsh/. Dots in newsgroup names (especially two-component names) tend to be pronounced more often (so soc.wibble is /sok dot wib'l/ rather than /sohsh wib'l/). The prefix meta may be pronounced /mee't*/; similarly, Greek letter beta is usually /bee't*/, zeta is usually /zee't*/, and so forth. Preferred metasyntactic variables include blurgle, "eek", "ook", "frodo", and "bilbo"; "wibble", "wobble", and in emergencies "wubble"; "banana", "tom", "dick", "harry", "wombat", "frog", fish, and so on and on (see foo). Alternatives to verb doubling include suffixes "-o-rama", "frenzy" (as in feeding frenzy), and "city" (examples: "barf city!" "hack-o-rama!" "core dump frenzy!"). Finally, note that the American terms "parens", "brackets", and "braces" for (), [], and {} are uncommon; Commonwealth hackish prefers "brackets", "square brackets", and "curly brackets". Also, the use of "pling" for bang is common outside the United States. See also attoparsec, calculator, chemist, console jockey, fish, go-faster stripes, grunge, hakspek, heavy metal, leaky heap, lord high fixer, loose bytes, muddie, nadger, noddy, psychedelicware, plingnet, raster blaster, RTBM, seggie, spod, sun lounge, terminal junkie, tick-list features, weeble, weasel, YABA, and notes or definitions under Bad Thing, barf, bum, chase pointers, cosmic rays, crippleware, crunch, dodgy, gonk, hamster, hardwarily, mess-dos, nibble, proglet, root, SEX, tweak and xyzzy.
  • commune with oneself — to think; ponder
  • cut one's own throat — to be the means of one's own ruin
  • discounted cash flow — a technique for appraising an investment that takes into account the different values of future returns according to when they will be received
  • drink with the flies — to drink alone
  • edward the confessorSaint, 1002?–66, English king 1042–66: founder of Westminster Abbey.
  • for all one is worth — good or important enough to justify (what is specified): advice worth taking; a place worth visiting.
  • friend with benefits — (used as a euphemism) a friend with whom one has sex without a romantic relationship or commitment.
  • full to the gunwales — completely full; full to overflowing
  • hardware handshaking — (communications)   A technique for regulating the flow of data across an interface by means of signals carried on separate wires. A common example is the RTS (Request to Send) and CTS (Clear to Send) signals on an EIA-232 serial line. The alternative, software handshaking, uses two special characters inserted into the data stream to carry the same information.
  • hawaii-standard-time — Alaska-Hawaii time.
  • heston and isleworth — a former borough, now part of Hounslow, in SE England, near London.
  • holy water sprinkler — morning star (def 2).
  • how about something? — what is your wish, opinion, or information concerning something (or someone)?
  • indicated horsepower — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • know all the answers — be opinionated
  • lead with one's chin — to act so imprudently as to invite disaster
  • let someone off with — to give (a light punishment) to someone
  • mecklenburg-schwerin — a former state in NE Germany, formed in 1934 from two states (Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz)
  • new jerusalem church — a sect founded in 1787, based on Swedenborgianism
  • not out of the woods — If something or someone is not out of the woods yet, they are still having difficulties or problems.
  • ode to the west wind — a poem (1820) by Shelley.
  • old man of the woods — an edible, mild-tasting mushroom, Strobilomyces floccopus, occurring in coniferous woodlands of eastern North America.
  • on the starboard bow — within 45 degrees to the starboard of straight ahead
  • owner-occupied house — a house that is owned by the person who lives in it
  • pleased with oneself — If someone seems very satisfied with something they have done, you can say that they are pleased with themselves, especially if you think they are more satisfied than they should be.
  • rough-winged swallow — either of two New World swallows of the genus Stelgidopteryx, having outer primary feathers with small barblike hooks on the margins.
  • saxe-weimar-eisenach — a former grand duchy in Thuringia in central Germany.
  • see with half an eye — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • settle accounts with — to pay or receive a balance due
  • size-weight illusion — a standard sense illusion that a small object is heavier than a large object of the same weight
  • snow-on-the-mountain — a North American euphorbiaceous plant, Euphorbia marginata, having white-edged leaves and showy white bracts surrounding small flowers
  • spanish west african — of or relating to the former Spanish overseas territory of Spanish West Africa (now the overseas provinces of Ifni and Spanish Sahara) or its inhabitants
  • spanish-american war — the war between the U.S. and Spain in 1898.
  • sweetheart agreement — a contract made through collusion between management and labor representatives containing terms beneficial to management and detrimental to union workers.
  • the (great) unwashed — The unwashed or the great unwashed is a way of referring to poor or ordinary people.
  • the last word in sth — If you say that something is the last word in luxury, comfort, or some other quality, you are emphasizing that it has a great deal of this quality.
  • the roaring twenties — a phrase used to describe the decade of the 1920s (esp in America), so called due to the social, artistic, and cultural dynamism of the period
  • the whole nine yards — everything that is required; the whole thing
  • throw up one's hands — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • to be a one-man show — to be reliant on one person alone
  • to be a warning shot — to be a warning

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