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15-letter words containing s, w, i

  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shrink-wrapping — a flexible plastic wrapping designed to shrink about its contours to protect and seal something
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
  • 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.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
  • 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 kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • 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
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • 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.
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • 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.
  • swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
  • swimming trunks — men's swimsuit shorts
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • swinging single — an unmarried person who is sexually promiscuous
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • 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
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