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14-letter words containing w, h, e

  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • cremnitz white — lead white.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
  • down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • down the tubes — a hollow, usually cylindrical body of metal, glass, rubber, or other material, used especially for conveying or containing liquids or gases.
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • dry white wine — Dry white wine is white wine that does not have a sweet taste.
  • dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwelling house — a house occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a residence.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • eggshell white — a yellowish white colour
  • elephant shrew — any small active African mammal of the family Macroscelididae and order Macroscelidea, having an elongated nose, large ears, and long hind legs
  • english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
  • everywhereness — Ubiquity; omnipresence.
  • fare-thee-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
  • feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
  • featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
  • fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
  • field-to-wheel — relating to all phases of biofuel production and use from growing to combustion
  • follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
  • forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
  • freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
  • french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • freshers' week — a week at the beginning of a university year, usually with a programme of events intended to welcome new first-year students
  • freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
  • game show host — a broadcaster who reads the questions or conducts a game show
  • george hw bush — Barbara (Barbara Pierce) born 1925, U.S. First Lady 1989–93 (wife of George H. W. Bush).
  • get funny with — to be impudent to
  • get in the way — be an obstacle
  • get jiggy with — to have sexual relations with
  • get with child — to make pregnant
  • glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
  • go all the way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • go on the swag — to become a tramp
  • go to bed with — a piece of furniture upon which or within which a person sleeps, rests, or stays when not well.
  • go to the wall — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • go up the wall — to become crazy or furious
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