14-letter words containing w, i, s, h
- alaska highway — a road extending from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Fairbanks, Alaska: built by the US Army (1942). Length: 2452 km (1523 miles)
- aswan high dam — a dam on the Nile forming a reservoir (Lake Nasser) extending 480 km (300 miles) from the First to the Third Cataracts: opened in 1971, it was built 6 km (4 miles) upstream from the old Aswan Dam (built in 1902 and twice raised). Height of dam: 109 m (365 ft)
- bare ownership — ownership of a piece of property without the right to use and derive profit from that property
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- be in the wars — If someone has been in the wars, they have been injured, for example in a fight or in an accident.
- be in the wash — If you say that something such as an item of clothing is in the wash, you mean that it is being washed, is waiting to be washed, or has just been washed and should therefore not be worn or used.
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- between whiles — now and then; at intervals
- 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.
- bonded-whiskey — something that binds, fastens, confines, or holds together.
- 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
- bowstring hemp — a hemplike fibre obtained from the sansevieria
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- 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.
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- 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
- english walnut — an Asiatic walnut tree (Juglans regia) now grown in Europe and North America
- farthingsworth — the amount that can be bought with a farthing; a small amount
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- fellowshipping — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fighting words — Usually, fighting words. language that arouses rage in an antagonist.
- 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.
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- hadrian's wall — a wall of defense for the Roman province of Britain, constructed by Hadrian between Solway Firth and the mouth of the Tyne.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hawaiian goose — nene.
- hawaiian shirt — a short-sleeved, loose-fitting, open-collar shirt originally worn in Hawaii, made of lightweight fabric printed in colorful, often bold designs of flowers, leaves, birds, beaches, etc.
- healing powers — beneficial qualities
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