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15-letter words containing s, c, r, e

  • user experience — Digital Technology. the perception and response of a person toward design elements of software or digital media while interacting with it. Abbreviation: UX.
  • vacation course — a course of study undertaken during a vacation, usually combined with other activities
  • vanishing cream — a cosmetic similar to cold cream but less oily, applied usually to the face and neck as a base, night cream, or moisturizer.
  • vascular bundle — a longitudinal arrangement of strands of xylem and phloem, and sometimes cambium, that forms the fluid-conducting channels of vascular tissue in the rhizomes, stems, and leaf veins of vascular plants, the arrangement varying with the type of plant.
  • vascular system — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vascular tissue — plant tissue consisting of ducts or vessels, that, in the higher plants, forms the system (vascular system) by which sap is conveyed through the plant.
  • vector analysis — the branch of calculus that deals with vectors and processes involving vectors.
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • vermouth cassis — a mixed drink made with dry vermouth, crème de cassis, soda or mineral water, and cracked ice.
  • vernier compass — a compass on a transit (vernier transit) having a vernier for adjusting magnetic bearings to read as true bearings.
  • vers de societe — humorous light verse dealing with fashions and foibles of the time.
  • vertical angles — one of two opposite and equal angles formed by the intersection of two lines.
  • vice-presidency — the position of a person who ranks immediately below the chief executive or head of state of a republic, esp of the US, and serves as his deputy
  • virtuous circle — a beneficial cycle of events or incidents, each having a positive effect on the next.
  • visual literacy — the ability to apprehend or interpret pictures or other visual images.
  • vitreous silica — silica glass
  • voyeuristically — of, relating to, or characteristic of a voyeur or of voyeurism.
  • vreni schneider — Vreni [vren-ee] /ˈvrɛn i/ (Show IPA), born 1964, Swiss Alpine ski racer.
  • wallpaper music — music that is pleasant but not interesting, so people do not pay much attention to it
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • 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.
  • well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
  • 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 hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white christmas — A white Christmas is a Christmas when it snows.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • 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.
  • winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
  • winner's circle — a small, usually circular area or enclosure at a racetrack where awards are bestowed on winning mounts and their jockeys.
  • winter solstice — the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • with respect to — as regards
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
  • worcester sauce — a commercially prepared piquant sauce, made from a basis of soy sauce, with vinegar, spices, etc
  • 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.
  • wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
  • wring sb's neck — If you say that you will wring someone's neck or that you would like to wring their neck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.
  • yorkshire chair — Derbyshire chair.
  • youth orchestra — an orchestra that is made up of young musicians
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