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15-letter words containing t, h, r, o, w

  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • 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.
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • 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 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.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • st.-john's-wort — any of various plants or shrubs of the genus Hypericum, having yellow flowers and transparently dotted leaves.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the donkey work — difficult, boring, or routine work
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the other woman — married man's female lover
  • the outward man — the body as opposed to the soul
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the war-wounded — those people who have been injured or wounded by war
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
  • throw overboard — to reject or abandon
  • to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
  • tomato hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca quinquemaculata, having a black, hornlike structure at the rear, that feeds on the leaves of tomato, potato, and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • 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.
  • tyrwhitt-wilson — Gerald Hugh, 14th Baron Berners [bur-nerz] /ˈbɜr nərz/ (Show IPA), 1883–1950, English composer, painter, and author.
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • untrustworthily — in an untrustworthy manner; not trustworthily
  • water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
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