14-letter words containing w, h, i, d, e, r
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- 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
- 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.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- grinding wheel — a wheel composed of abrasive material, used for grinding.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- heavy wizardry — Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface. Distinguished from deep magic, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge. Writing device drivers is heavy wizardry; so is interfacing to X (sense 2) without a toolkit. Especially found in source-code comments of the form "Heavy wizardry begins here". Compare voodoo programming.
- heidelberg jaw — a human lower jaw of early middle Pleistocene age found in 1907 near Heidelberg, Germany.
- homework diary — a record of homework that has been set
- hundredweights — Plural form of hundredweight.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- in other words — that is to say
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- one-hit wonder — a singer, composer or group that only ever has one successful piece
- raise the wind — to obtain the necessary funds
- rawhide hammer — a hammer, used to avoid damaging a surface, having a head consisting of a metal tube from each end of which a tight roll of hide protrudes
- richard tawney — Richard Henry, 1880–1962, English historian, born in Calcutta.
- shrink-wrapped — A shrink-wrapped product is sold in a tight covering of thin plastic.
- swedish turnip — rutabaga.
- the lower paid — people who do not earn a lot of money
- the wilderness — the barren regions to the south and east of Palestine, esp those in which the Israelites wandered before entering the Promised Land and in which Christ fasted for 40 days and nights
- trade-weighted — (of exchange rates) weighted according to the volume of trade between the various countries involved
- under the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
- washing powder — Washing powder is a powder that you use with water to wash clothes.
- weather window — a limited interval when weather conditions can be expected to be suitable for a particular project, such as laying offshore pipelines, reaching a high mountain summit, launching a satellite, etc
- well-furnished — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- well-nourished — having been provided with plenty of the material necessary for life and growth
- wild hydrangea — a shrub, Hydrangea arborescens, of the saxifrage family, common throughout the eastern half of the U.S., having egg-shaped leaves and a rounded cluster of white flowers.
- window-shopper — to look at articles in the windows of stores without making any purchases.
- with bad grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- wrestling hold — a way of holding someone in the sport of wrestling
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