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15-letter words containing a, r, d, w, o

  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • lower east side — a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.
  • lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man-o'-war bird — frigate bird.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • marigold window — wheel window.
  • meadow mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • network address — (networking)   1. The network portion of an IP address. For a class A network, the network address is the first byte of the IP address. For a class B network, the network address is the first two bytes of the IP address. For a class C network, the network address is the first three bytes of the IP address. In each case, the remainder is the host address. In the Internet, assigned network addresses are globally unique. See also subnet address, Internet Registry. 2. (Or "net address") An electronic mail address on the network. In the 1980s this might have been a bang path but now (1997) it is nearly always a domain address. Such an address is essential if one wants to be to be taken seriously by hackers; in particular, persons or organisations that claim to understand, work with, sell to, or recruit from among hackers but *don't* display net addresses are quietly presumed to be clueless poseurs and mentally flushed. Hackers often put their net addresses on their business cards and wear them prominently in contexts where they expect to meet other hackers face-to-face (e.g. science-fiction fandom). This is mostly functional, but is also a signal that one identifies with hackerdom (like lodge pins among Masons or tie-dyed T-shirts among Grateful Dead fans). Net addresses are often used in e-mail text as a more concise substitute for personal names; indeed, hackers may come to know each other quite well by network names without ever learning each others' real monikers. See also sitename, domainist.
  • newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
  • nomex underwear — /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [Usenet] Synonym asbestos longjohns, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups. NOMEX underwear is an actual product available on the racing equipment market, used as a fire resistance measure and required in some racing series.
  • north tonawanda — a city in W New York.
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • 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.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
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