15-letter words containing s, e, g, w
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
- swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
- swinging single — an unmarried person who is sexually promiscuous
- to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
- training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
- tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
- viewing figures — the number of people watching a television programme
- washing machine — an apparatus, especially a household appliance, for washing clothing, linens, etc.
- waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
- wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
- 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.
- whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- wide-angle lens — A wide-angle lens is a lens which allows you to photograph a wider view than a normal lens.
- window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
- wittgensteinian — Ludwig (Josef Johann) [loot-vikh yoh-zef yoh-hahn,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx ˈyoʊ zɛf ˈyoʊ hɑn,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1889–1951, Austrian philosopher.
- 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.
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
- 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.
- wrist wrestling — a form of arm wrestling in which two contenders interlock thumbs and try to force each other's hands to touch the table on which they are competing.
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.