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

  • walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
  • walloon brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the S part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 360 717 (2004 est). Area: 1091 sq km (421 sq miles)
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • wassermann test — a diagnostic test for syphilis using the fixation of a complement by the serum of a syphilitic individual.
  • 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 pimpernel — the brookweed.
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • water treatment — the act or process of making water more potable or useful, as by purifying, clarifying, softening, or deodorizing it.
  • water-repellent — having a finish that resists but is not impervious to water.
  • water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • wearing apparel — clothing; garments.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • weight training — weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
  • wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
  • wernicke's area — a portion of the left posterior temporal lobe of the brain, involved in the ability to understand words.
  • west carrollton — a town in W Ohio.
  • western tanager — a tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, of western North America, the male of which is black, yellow, and orange-red.
  • what's-her-name — a girl or woman whose name is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked
  • wheaten terrier — soft-coated wheaten terrier.
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
  • whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
  • wilderness area — a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • winning gallery — a winning opening on the hazard side, below the penthouse and farthest from the dedans. Compare dedans (def 1), grille (def 5).
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.
  • winter quarters — housing or accommodation for the winter, esp for military personnel
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
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