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15-letter words containing r, w, d

  • winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • winter resident — a person who spends the winter in a particular place
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • 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.
  • withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wondermongering — the promising of miracles
  • 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/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
  • worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
  • 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
  • world-wide wait — (humour)   A pejorative expansion of WWW reflecting on the slowness of some network connections and sites.
  • wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
  • yellow lead ore — wulfenite.
  • yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.
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