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

  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • 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.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • 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.
  • sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
  • serjeant at law — (formerly in England) a barrister of a special rank, to which he was raised by a writ under the Great Seal
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • 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.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
  • 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.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • 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.
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the whole shoot — everything
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
  • two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • wallpaper paste — an adhesive used for attaching wallpaper to a surface
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
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