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

  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • old boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • pinkster flower — a wild azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, of the U.S., having pink or purplish flowers.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • 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.
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tall meadow rue — a meadow rue, Thalictrum polygamum.
  • 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 rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.
  • troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
  • tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
  • twelve-tone row — tone row.
  • two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
  • 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.
  • wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • well trajectory — The well trajectory is the direction in which the well is drilled.
  • well turned out — smartly dressed
  • 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-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-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
  • 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.
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