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15-letter words containing a, n, t, w

  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
  • tomato hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata, having a black, hornlike structure at the rear, that feeds on the leaves of tomato, potato, and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • transverse wave — a wave in which the direction of displacement is perpendicular to the direction of propagation, as a surface wave of water.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • trigger warning — a stated warning that the content of a text, video, etc., may upset or offend some people, especially those who have previously experienced a related trauma: a blog post with a trigger warning for rape.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • venetian window — Palladian window.
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • wallace nutting — Wallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
  • walloon brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the S part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 360 717 (2004 est). Area: 1091 sq km (421 sq miles)
  • walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • wassermann test — a diagnostic test for syphilis using the fixation of a complement by the serum of a syphilitic individual.
  • water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
  • water pimpernel — the brookweed.
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • water treatment — the act or process of making water more potable or useful, as by purifying, clarifying, softening, or deodorizing it.
  • water-repellent — having a finish that resists but is not impervious to water.
  • water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
  • wattle and daub — Also, wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
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