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15-letter words containing i, n, d, a, w

  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • 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
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • venetian window — Palladian window.
  • w.h. richardsonHenry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • 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
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • well-acquainted — having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with): to be acquainted with law.
  • well-delineated — to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially: He delineated the state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • well-maintained — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
  • well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • wide-angle lens — A wide-angle lens is a lens which allows you to photograph a wider view than a normal lens.
  • wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
  • wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wilderness area — a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • 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
  • yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
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