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15-letter words containing r, w

  • weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wechsler scales — a group of intelligence tests, including the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) later revised (WAIS-R) the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) later revised (WISC-R) the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence (WPPSI) and the Wechsler-Bellevue Scale, no longer used, all of which emphasize performance and verbal skills and give separate scores for subtests in vocabulary, arithmetic, memory span, assembly of objects, and other abilities.
  • wedding planner — sb hired to organize a marriage day
  • wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
  • wee small hours — the hours just after midnight
  • week after week — every week or for many successive weeks
  • 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.
  • weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
  • welfare officer — a person who gives people help and advice
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
  • well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
  • well turned out — smartly dressed
  • well-accredited — officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
  • well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • 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.
  • well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
  • well-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • well-elaborated — worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care. Synonyms: perfected, painstaking. Antonyms: simple.
  • well-engineered — a person trained and skilled in the design, construction, and use of engines or machines, or in any of various branches of engineering: a mechanical engineer; a civil engineer.
  • well-formedness — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
  • well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • well-remembered — to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again: I'll try to remember the exact date.
  • well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
  • 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.
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
  • western reserve — a tract of land in NE Ohio reserved by Connecticut (1786) when its rights to other land in the western U.S. were ceded to the federal government; relinquished in 1800.
  • western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
  • 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.
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • whiplash injury — the lash of a whip.
  • whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
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