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21-letter words containing w, h, o

  • a home away from home — You can say a home away from home to refer to a place in which you are as comfortable as in your own home.
  • a shot across the bow — If you describe someone's actions as a shot across the bows of another person, you mean that it is a warning to that person to stop or change what they are doing.
  • a world heritage site — a site of international importance
  • after one's own heart — appealing to one's own disposition, taste, or tendencies
  • anton van leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
  • as luck would have it — fortunately
  • astronomical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 18° below the horizon
  • black-headed fireworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Rhopobota naevana (black-headed fireworm) which feeds on the leaves of cranberries and causes them to wither.
  • blow the whistle (on) — to report or inform (on)
  • bovine growth hormone — a growth hormone of cattle; esp., this hormone synthesized artificially and administered to beef cattle to increase growth rate and reduce fat and to dairy cows to increase milk production
  • bow to the inevitable — If someone bows to the inevitable and does something that they do not want to do, they do it, because circumstances force them to do it.
  • break the fourth wall — (esp of a character in a television programme, film, or play) to refer to, acknowledge, or address the audience, usually for comedic effect or as an avante-garde technique
  • broadleaved whitebeam — a whitebeam, Sorbus latifolia, widely found in France and England, also planted as an ornamental
  • chief warrant officer — a senior-ranking warrant officer in various armed forces
  • chinese water torture — a form of torture in which water is made to drip for a long period of time onto a victim's forehead to drive him insane
  • cut-through switching — (networking)   The application of wormhole routing to packets in a packet switching system so that forwarding of a packet starts as soon as its destination is known, before the whole packet has arrived. Compare store and forward.
  • dataflow architecture — a means of arranging computer data processing in which operations are governed by the data present and the processing it requires rather than by a prewritten program that awaits data to be processed
  • downhole safety valve — A downhole safety valve is a piece of safety equipment used inside a well, which isolates wellbore pressure and fluid if something bad happens.
  • forward exchange rate — the exchange rate of a currency to be delivered at a later date
  • frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
  • get down on something — to procure something, esp in advance of needs or in anticipation of someone else
  • get into the swing of — If you get into the swing of something, you become very involved in it and enjoy what you are doing.
  • go down the wrong way — (of food) to pass into the windpipe instead of the gullet
  • got what one deserved — If you say that someone got what they deserved, you mean that they deserved the bad thing that happened to them, and you have no sympathy for them.
  • gram-molecular weight — gram molecule. Abbreviation: GMW.
  • greenwich observatory — the national astronomical observatory of Great Britain, housed in a castle in E Sussex; formerly located at Greenwich.
  • harriet beecher stowe — Harriet (Elizabeth) Beecher, 1811–96, U.S. abolitionist and novelist.
  • hawaiian honeycreeper — any small to medium-sized finches of the subfamily Drepanidinae, native to the Hawaiian Islands and including many rare and extinct species.
  • help a person on with — to assist a person in the putting on of (clothes)
  • heterogeneous network — (networking)   A network running multiple network layer protocols such as DECnet, IP, IPX, XNS.
  • i don't know how/what — You use I don't know in expressions which indicate criticism of someone's behaviour. For example, if you say that you do not know how someone can do something, you mean that you cannot understand or accept them doing it.
  • in co-ordination with — If you do something in co-ordination with someone else, you both organize your activities so that you work together efficiently.
  • in more ways than one — You say in more ways than one to indicate that what you have said is intended to have more than one meaning.
  • indicated horse-power — the horsepower of a reciprocating engine as shown by an indicator record. Abbreviation: ihp, IHP.
  • jump on the bandwagon — do sth because it is popular
  • know someone by sight — If you know someone by sight, you can recognize them when you see them, although you have never met them and talked to them.
  • law of thermodynamics — any of three principles variously stated in equivalent forms, being the principle that the change of energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the heat transferred minus the work done (first law of thermodynamics) the principle that no cyclic process is possible in which heat is absorbed from a reservoir at a single temperature and converted completely into mechanical work (second law of thermodynamics) and the principle that it is impossible to reduce the temperature of a system to absolute zero in a finite number of operations (third law of thermodynamics)
  • let well enough alone — separate, apart, or isolated from others: I want to be alone.
  • lost in the underflow — (jargon)   Too small to be worth considering; more specifically, small beyond the limits of accuracy or measurement. This is a reference to "floating point underflow". The Hacker's Jargon File claimed that it is also a pun on "undertow" (a kind of fast, cold current that sometimes runs just offshore and can be dangerous to swimmers). "Well, sure, photon pressure from the stadium lights alters the path of a thrown baseball, but that effect gets lost in the underflow". Compare epsilon, epsilon squared; see also overflow bit.
  • lotus of the good law — Saddharma-Pundarika.
  • lotus-of-the-true-law — a Mahayana sutra, forming with its references to Amida and the Bodhisattvas the basis for the doctrine that there is something of Buddha in everyone, so that salvation is universally available: a central text of Mahayana Buddhism.
  • lower the tone of sth — If you say that something lowers the tone of a place or event, you mean that it is not appropriate and makes the place or event seem less respectable.
  • maidenhair spleenwort — an evergreen fern, Asplenium trichomanes, abundant in woody areas of the North Temperate Zone, having thickly clustered fronds.
  • make heavy weather of — to create needless difficulties in dealing with
  • make one's peace with — the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
  • maryland yellowthroat — (in former systems of nomenclature) the common yellowthroat, Geothlypis trichas, especially the eastern U.S. subspecies.
  • member of the wedding — a novel (1946) and play (1950) by Carson McCullers.
  • minister of the crown — any Government minister of cabinet rank
  • motherwell and wishaw — a burgh in the Motherwell district, in S Scotland.
  • neither fish nor fowl — any of various cold-blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with scales.

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