15-letter words containing r, w, y
- privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
- psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
- qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
- railway journey — a journey made by railway train
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
- say a few words — to give a brief speech
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
- swiss army code — (programming, humour) Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
- symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
- the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
- the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
- tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
- unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
- university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
- unknown country — an unfamiliar topic, place, matter, etc
- untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
- upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
- upwardly mobile — See under vertical mobility (def 1).
- viewing gallery — an area in a building or outside for viewing an activity, the surrounding scenery, etc
- water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
- 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.
- well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
- 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
- wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- worm's eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- worm's-eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- 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.