15-letter words containing s, w, e
- a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
- abyssinian well — a perforated pipe driven into the ground for pumping out collected ground water; wellpoint.
- acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
- adamawa-eastern — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.
- ah, wilderness! — a comedy (1933) by Eugene O'Neill.
- answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
- articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
- auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again
- backup software — (tool, software) Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
- barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
- barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
- bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
- battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
- be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
- be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
- be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
- be on one's way — If you are on your way, you have started your journey somewhere.
- be snowed under — to be overwhelmed, esp with paperwork
- bird's eye view — You say that you have a bird's eye view of a place when you are looking down at it from a great height, so that you can see a long way but everything looks very small.
- bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
- 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 cool — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
- blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
- 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.
- blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
- borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
- brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
- 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
- casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
- cellar dwellers — the team at the bottom of a sports league
- cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
- chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
- chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
- chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
- citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
- collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- country western — country music
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