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15-letter words containing d, o, w, n

  • number one wood — driver (def 4).
  • old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • 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
  • 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
  • overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • redwood seconds — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the time in seconds taken for fluid to flow through a standard orifice: accepted as standard in the UK in 1886
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • 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
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • show one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • take one's 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.
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • 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.
  • to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
  • tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • truck (on) down — to walk in a carefree, leisurely manner; stroll
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