15-letter words containing i, r, a, w
- marigold window — wheel window.
- medieval hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from the 6th to the 13th centuries a.d.
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
- new hampshirite — of New Hampshire
- new high german — the High German language since c1500.
- new-variant cjd — a form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease thought to be transmitted by eating beef or beef products infected with BSE
- 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-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- pickwick papers — (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club) a novel (1837) by Charles Dickens.
- port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- port wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
- port-wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- prairie warbler — an eastern North American wood warbler, Dendroica discolor, olive-green above, yellow below, and striped with black on the face and sides.
- primary rainbow — the most commonly seen rainbow, formed by light rays that undergo a single internal reflection in a drop of water.
- 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
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- read-write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
- read/write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
- 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
- rearview mirror — a mirror mounted on the side, windshield, or instrument panel of an automobile or other vehicle to provide the driver with a view of the area behind the vehicle.
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- 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
- 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.
- senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power