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21-letter words containing w, h

  • 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
  • anaesthetic awareness — the gaining of consciousness by an anaesthetized patient during a surgical operation
  • anton van leeuwenhoek — Anton van [ahn-tawn vahn] /ˈɑn tɔn vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1632–1723, Dutch naturalist and microscopist.
  • as dull as ditchwater — extremely uninspiring
  • as luck would have it — fortunately
  • astronomical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 18° below the horizon
  • away with the fairies — out of touch with reality
  • be in black and white — You say that something is in black and white when it has been written or printed, and not just said.
  • 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.
  • blackburn with darwen — a unitary authority in NW England, in Lancashire. Pop: 139 800 (2003 est). Area: 137 sq km (53 sq miles)
  • 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
  • british anti-lewisite — a colorless, oily, viscous liquid, C 3 H 8 OS 2 , originally developed as an antidote to lewisite and now used in treating bismuth, gold, mercury, and arsenic poisoning.
  • broadleaved whitebeam — a whitebeam, Sorbus latifolia, widely found in France and England, also planted as an ornamental
  • charles edward stuart — a member of the royal family that ruled in Scotland from 1371 to 1714 and in England from 1603 to 1714.
  • cheese and wine party — a party at which cheese and wine are served
  • chickweed wintergreen — a primulaceous plant, Trientalis europaea, of N Europe and N Asia, having white flowers and leaves arranged in a whorl
  • 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.
  • empty the wastebasket — If you empty the wastebasket, you remove its contents and put them in the trash.
  • forward exchange rate — the exchange rate of a currency to be delivered at a later date
  • french and indian war — the war in America in which France and its Indian allies opposed England 1754–60: ended by Treaty of Paris in 1763.
  • frequent wash shampoo — a shampoo whose mildness allows it to be used frequently
  • friends with benefits — friends who have a casual sexual relationship with no expectation of commitment
  • get down on something — to procure something, esp in advance of needs or in anticipation of someone else
  • get in under the wire — to accomplish something with little time to spare
  • 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.
  • hazard warning device — an appliance fitted to a motor vehicle that operates the hazard lights
  • 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.
  • jewish defense league — an organization of militant Jewish activists, founded in 1968 in the U.S. to combat anti-Semitism and defend Jewish interests worldwide. Abbr.: JDL.
  • jump on the bandwagon — do sth because it is popular

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