15-letter words containing i, t, w
- old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
- 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
- packet-switched — packet switching
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
- picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- play havoc with — bring chaos to
- 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.
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
- preview monitor — (in a television studio control room) a picture monitor used for inspecting a picture source before it is switched to transmission
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- put the wind up — to frighten or alarm
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- 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
- red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- 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.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
- 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.
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- 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.
- south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
- spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.