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15-letter words containing s, i, t, w, e

  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • port wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • port-wine stain — a large birthmark of purplish color, usually on the face or neck.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
  • spirits of wine — alcohol (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.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
  • sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • take issue with — disagree with
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • 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.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
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