15-letter words containing t, w, e, p
- spread the word — make others aware
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- 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
- take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
- talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
- threepennyworth — an amount having the value or price of threepence
- to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
- twelve apostles — the twelve disciples chosen by Jesus to go forth to teach the gospel
- two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
- wallpaper paste — an adhesive used for attaching wallpaper to a surface
- water pennywort — any of numerous perennial herbs of the genus Hydrocotyle, of the parsley family, having rounded leaves and living in water or marshy places.
- water pimpernel — the brookweed.
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- water-repellent — having a finish that resists but is not impervious to water.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
- 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-positioned — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- west hartlepool — a former borough, now part of Hartlepool, in Cleveland County, in NE England, at the mouth of the Tees.
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
- western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
- western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
- westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
- whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
- whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
- white corpuscle — white blood cell.
- white supremacy — the belief, theory, or doctrine that white people are inherently superior to people from all other racial groups, especially black people, and are therefore rightfully the dominant group in any society.
- 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.
- winnie-the-pooh — a collection of children's stories (1926) by A. A. Milne.
- 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.
- with respect to — as regards
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure