15-letter words containing l, o, w, i, n
- low bandwidth x — (networking) (LBX) An implementation of the X Window System designed to improve performance over ISDN, WAN, and serial lines.
- low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
- lowland gorilla — the eastern lowland gorilla or western lowland gorilla. See under gorilla.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- marigold window — wheel window.
- minkowski world — a four-dimensional space in which the fourth coordinate is time and in which a single event is represented as a point.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
- navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
- newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
- once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- parkinson's law — the statement, expressed facetiously as if a law of physics, that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion.
- pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- 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.
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- 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
- 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.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
- the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- town councillor — member of municipal government
- two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
- tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
- unknown soldier — an unidentified soldier killed in battle and buried with honors, the tomb serving as a memorial to all the unidentified dead of a nation's armed forces. The tomb of the American Unknown Soldier, commemorating a serviceman killed in World War I, was established in the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia in 1921. In 1958, the remains of personnel of World War II and the Korean War were buried alongside the tomb (now called the Tomb of the Unknowns, ). In 1984, a serviceman of the Vietnam War was interred next to the others.
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- 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.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
- washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers