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15-letter words containing s, e, w, a, r

  • troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • upperclasswoman — An upperclasswoman is a junior or senior student in a high school, college, or university.
  • waddesdon manor — a mansion near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire: built (1880–89) in the French style for the Rothschild family: noted for its furnishings and collections of porcelain and paintings
  • wallpaper music — music that is pleasant but not interesting, so people do not pay much attention to it
  • wallpaper paste — an adhesive used for attaching wallpaper to a surface
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • warmheartedness — The quality of being warmhearted.
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • wassermann test — a diagnostic test for syphilis using the fixation of a complement by the serum of a syphilitic individual.
  • water-based mud — Water-based mud is a type of drilling mud consisting mainly of water, which has additives to modify it and make it more effective.
  • water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • 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.
  • wee small hours — the hours just after midnight
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
  • whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
  • 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 snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • 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.
  • wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • wilderness area — a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • william webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.
  • winter quarters — housing or accommodation for the winter, esp for military personnel
  • 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.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
  • 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
  • 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
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
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