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

  • 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 breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • power structure — the system of authority or influence in government, politics, education, etc.: The state elections threatened to upset the existing power structure.
  • 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
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • shoot the works — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • 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.
  • south-southwest — the point on the compass midway between south and southwest.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
  • spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • 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
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