15-letter words containing t, w, a
- refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
- saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
- 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.
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
- serjeant at law — (formerly in England) a barrister of a special rank, to which he was raised by a writ under the Great Seal
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
- 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.
- show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
- sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
- snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
- snowy mountains — a mountain range in SE Australia, part of the Australian Alps: famous hydroelectric scheme
- software method — Software Methodology
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- southeastwardly — toward the southeast
- southwestwardly — toward the southwest
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- spread the word — make others aware
- 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.
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
- strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
- strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
- strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
- 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.
- 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.
- sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
- sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
- sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
- take issue with — disagree with