14-letter words containing w, i, t
- a thing or two — If you say that a person knows a thing or two about something or could teach someone a thing or two about it, you mean that they know a lot about it or are good at it.
- aerial tramway — tramway (def 4).
- air stewardess — a stewardess on an airliner
- aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
- american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
- ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
- andrew toolkit — (tool) (ATK) A portable user interface toolkit developed as part of the Andrew project, running on the X Window System and distributed with X11R5.
- atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
- atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
- balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
- ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
- baptismal vows — the solemn promises made during baptism, either by the person baptized or by his or her sponsors
- battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
- batwing sleeve — a sleeve of a garment with a deep armhole and a tight wrist
- 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
- below the line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- below-the-line — denoting the entries printed below the horizontal line on a company's profit-and-loss account that show how any profit is to be distributed
- 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.
- boatswain bird — tropic bird.
- borrowing rate — the interest rate at which money may be borrowed, esp an official rate set by a central bank
- 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
- 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.
- brother-in-law — Someone's brother-in-law is the brother of their husband or wife, or the man who is married to their sister.
- brownie points — a credit toward advancement or good standing gained especially by currying favor.
- browntail moth — kind of moth
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- 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.
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- 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.
- come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
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