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15-letter words containing r, a, w, n

  • a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
  • adamawa-eastern — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • ah, wilderness! — a comedy (1933) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • air-raid warden — a member of a civil defence organization responsible for enforcing regulations, etc, during an air attack
  • all-or-none law — the principle that under given conditions the response of a nerve or muscle fiber to a stimulus at any strength above the threshold is the same: the muscle or nerve responds completely or not at all.
  • almirante brown — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • american wigeon — a bird of North America, Anas americana, that is similar to the wigeon; the male has a white crown
  • andrew carnegieAndrew, 1835–1919, U.S. steel manufacturer and philanthropist, born in Scotland.
  • andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
  • away-going crop — a crop planted by a tenant that matures after the expiration of the tenancy and is rightfully the tenant's to harvest.
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • brownian motion — the irregular motion of small particles suspended in a liquid or a gas, caused by the bombardment of the particles by molecules of the medium: first observed by Robert Brown in 1827.
  • call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • crack down (on) — to become strict or stricter (with)
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • delaware jargon — a jargon based on Unami Delaware, now extinct but formerly used as a lingua franca in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • downward closed — closure
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.

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