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15-letter words containing s, w, e, l, i, n

  • abyssinian well — a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water; wellpoint.
  • ah, wilderness! — a comedy (1933) by Eugene O'Neill.
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blended whiskey — whiskey that is a blend of straight whiskey and neutral spirits or of two or more straight whiskeys
  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
  • dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
  • english sparrow — a small Eurasian weaverbird, Passer domesticus, now established in North America and Australia. It has a brown streaked plumage with grey underparts
  • flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
  • fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • hostile witness — a witness who gives evidence against the party calling him
  • identical twins — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
  • in all weathers — If you say that someone does something in all weathers, you mean that they do it regularly whether the weather is good or bad.
  • intertwistingly — by intertwisting
  • jewish calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by the Jews, in which time is reckoned from 3761 bc: regarded as the year of the Creation. The months, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, Elul, Tishri, Cheshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, and Adar, have either 29 or 30 days. Originally a new month was declared when the new moon was sighted in Jerusalem, but when this became impossible, a complex formula was devised to keep Rosh Chodesh near to the new moon. In addition, to keep the harvest festivals in the right seasons, there is a Metonic cycle of 14 years, in five of which an additional month is added after Shevat. The year according to biblical reckoning begins with Nisan, and the civil year begins with Tishri; the years are numbered from Tishri
  • john lewis list — a list used by clerks in the House of Commons to assess the amount that may reasonably be claimed for various items by Members of Parliament as living expenses
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • leeward islands — a group of islands in the Caribbean, in the N Lesser Antilles between Puerto Rico and Martinique
  • levelling screw — a screw, often one of three, for adjusting the level of an apparatus
  • long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
  • lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • prince of walesPrince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • 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.
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • 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.
  • swinging single — an unmarried person who is sexually promiscuous

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