15-letter words containing p, o, w, e, r
- primrose yellow — primrose (def 3).
- 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
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
- rod pumped well — A rod pumped well is a well with a nodding donkey to remove fluid mechanically.
- screw propeller — a rotary propelling device, as for a ship or airplane, consisting of a number of blades that radiate from a central hub and are so inclined to the plane of rotation as to tend to drive a helical path through the substance in which they rotate.
- 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.
- seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
- share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
- shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
- sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
- spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
- spread the word — make others aware
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
- upperclasswoman — An upperclasswoman is a junior or senior student in a high school, college, or university.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- 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.
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- win one's spurs — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- with respect to — as regards
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- 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.
- work experience — temporary job placement
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
- write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure