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

  • well-accredited — officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
  • well-accustomed — customary; usual; habitual: in their accustomed manner.
  • well-acquainted — having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with): to be acquainted with law.
  • well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
  • well-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
  • well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • well-delineated — to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline; represent pictorially: He delineated the state of Texas on the map with a red pencil.
  • well-documented — a written or printed paper furnishing information or evidence, as a passport, deed, bill of sale, or bill of lading; a legal or official paper.
  • well-elaborated — worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care. Synonyms: perfected, painstaking. Antonyms: simple.
  • well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • well-identified — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • well-maintained — to keep in existence or continuance; preserve; retain: to maintain good relations with neighboring countries.
  • well-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
  • well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
  • well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
  • well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
  • wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
  • wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
  • west carrollton — a town in W Ohio.
  • west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
  • westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
  • white chocolate — a chocolate-type product made of milk and sugar that are cooked together until highly condensed and then mixed with cocoa butter.
  • white corpuscle — white blood cell.
  • white lightning — moonshine (def 1).
  • white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
  • whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • wilhelm meister — a novel (1795–1829) by Goethe.
  • william gilbert — Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
  • william webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • winter purslane — a plant, Montia perfoliata, native to western North America, of the purslane family, having edible, egg-shaped leaves and clusters of small, white flowers.
  • winter solstice — the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
  • wintergreen oil — methyl salicylate.
  • wish fulfilment — (in Freudian psychology) any successful attempt to fulfil a wish stemming from the unconscious mind, whether in fact, in fantasy, or by such disguised means as sublimation
  • wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
  • women's shelter — woman's refuge
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