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15-letter words containing g, w

  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • weight training — weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
  • well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
  • well-engineered — a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering: a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
  • wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
  • western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
  • western tanager — a tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, of western North America, the male of which is black, yellow, and orange-red.
  • whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white lightning — moonshine (def 1).
  • wide-angle lens — A wide-angle lens is a lens which allows you to photograph a wider view than a normal lens.
  • william gilbert — Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • window shopping — browsing store displays
  • window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
  • winning gallery — a winning opening on the hazard side, below the penthouse and farthest from the dedans. Compare dedans (def 1), grille (def 5).
  • winning opening — the dedans, winning gallery, or grille.
  • wintergreen oil — methyl salicylate.
  • witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • wittgensteinian — Ludwig (Josef Johann) [loot-vikh yoh-zef yoh-hahn,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx ˈyoʊ zɛf ˈyoʊ hɑn,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1889–1951, Austrian philosopher.
  • wondermongering — the promising of miracles
  • word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • wring sb's neck — If you say that you will wring someone's neck or that you would like to wring their neck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.
  • wrist wrestling — a form of arm wrestling in which two contenders interlock thumbs and try to force each other's hands to touch the table on which they are competing.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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