21-letter words containing w, o, r
- 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 nasty piece of work — If you say that someone is a nasty piece of work, you mean that they are very unkind or unpleasant.
- 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 string to one's bow — If someone has more than one string to their bow, they have more than one ability or thing they can use if the first one they try is not successful.
- a world heritage site — a site of international importance
- a world of difference — If you say that there is a world of difference between one thing and another, you are emphasizing that they are very different from each other.
- aerodynamic wave drag — the restraining force on a supersonic aircraft caused by shock waves.
- after one's own heart — appealing to one's own disposition, taste, or tendencies
- applications software — application program
- as good as one's word — doing what one has undertaken or promised to do
- astronomical twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 18° below the horizon
- axial-flow compressor — a device for compressing a gas by accelerating it tangentially by means of bladed rotors, to increase its kinetic energy, and then diffusing it through static vanes (stators), to increase its pressure
- 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 one's brains out — to kill oneself by shooting oneself in the head
- blow your own trumpet — If you blow your own trumpet or blow your own horn, you tell people that you are very clever or successful.
- boiling-water reactor — a nuclear reactor using water as coolant and moderator, steam being produced in the reactor itself: enriched uranium oxide cased in zirconium is the fuel
- borrowing requirement — the amount that needs to be borrowed to fill a budget deficit
- 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
- 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
- caroline of brunswick — 1768–1821, wife of George IV of the United Kingdom: tried for adultery (1820)
- 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
- civilian review board — a quasi-judicial board of appointed or elected citizens that investigates complaints against the police.
- clayton-bulwer treaty — an agreement between the U.S. and Great Britain in 1850 guaranteeing that any canal built to connect the Atlantic and Pacific across Central America would be jointly controlled, open to all nations, and unfortified.
- collimator viewfinder — a type of viewfinder in a camera
- compuware corporation — (company) A US software and service company established in 1973. Since 1973, Compuware focused on optimising business software development, testing and operation. In 1999 the company had grown to over 15,000 employees worldwide and revenues of more than $1.6B. By 2013 it had shrunk to less than 5000. Current (2013) products and services include performance optimisation, availability and quality of web, non-web, mobile, streaming and cloud applications; project portfolio management, professional services automation; mainframe applications and developer tools; rapid application development and professional services.
- 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
- dew-point temperature — the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a given pressure and water-vapor content, for it to reach saturation; the temperature at which dew begins to form.
- dumfries and galloway — a region in S Scotland. 2460 sq. mi. (6371 sq. km).
- dusky seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
- electronic typewriter — a keyboard machine for writing electromechanically in characters resembling print
- flowering wintergreen — fringed polygala.
- forward compatibility — (jargon) The ability to accept input from later versions of itself. Forward compatibility is harder to achieve than backward compatibility, since, in the backward case, the input format is know whereas a forward compatible system needs to cope gracefully with unknown future features. An example of future compatibility is the stipulation that a web browser should ignore HTML tags it does not recognise. See also extensible.
- 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
- 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.
- government in waiting — a political group which is hoping to be elected to govern in the near future
- 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.
- illinois bundleflower — a warm-season perennial, Desmanthus illinoensis, having small brown legumes and fernlike leaves, native to North American prairies, glades, and pastures.
- 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.
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