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15-letter words containing g, w

  • get a wiggle on — to hurry up
  • get the wind up — to become frightened
  • get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
  • gibson, william — William Gibson
  • gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
  • give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  • go on one's way — If you go on your way, you continue with your journey.
  • go through with — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
  • goody two-shoes — goody-goody
  • goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • grasp at straws — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
  • graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
  • great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
  • green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
  • greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
  • gregorian water — a mixture of water, salt, ashes, and wine, blessed and sprinkled over the altar in the consecration of a church.
  • grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • groundwood pulp — wood pulp consisting of groundwood that has not been cooked or chemically treated, used for making newsprint and other poorer grades of paper.
  • growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
  • hawaiian pidgin — an English-based creole widely spoken in Hawaii.
  • high-water mark — a mark showing the highest level reached by a body of water.
  • highway robbery — robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
  • hump one's swag — (of a tramp) to carry one's belongings from place to place on one's back
  • ignition switch — (on a vehicle) the part that sets the process of ignition in motion once the ignition key is turned; also a button used for the same purpose
  • in keeping with — in conformity or accord with
  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • intertwistingly — by intertwisting
  • jewelers' rouge — the brownish-red oxide of iron produced by heating ferrous sulfate: used chiefly as a pigment in paints and theatrical rouge, and as a polishing agent.
  • knowledge level — (artificial intelligence)   A level of description of the knowledge of an agent that is independent of the agent's internal symbol-level representation. Knowledge can be attributed to agents by observing their actions. An agent "knows" something if it acts as if it had the information and is acting rationally to achieve its goals. The "actions" of agents, including knowledge base servers and knowledge-based systems, can be seen through a "tell and ask" functional interface, where a client interacts with an agent by making logical assertions (tell), and posing queries (ask).
  • knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
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