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15-letter words containing t, w

  • a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
  • ability to work — A policyholder's ability to work is the degree to which they are able to do a job, as a result of disability.
  • above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
  • acknowledgement — An acknowledgement is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
  • adamawa-eastern — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • algaroth powder — antimony oxychloride.
  • almirante brown — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • anthony hawkinsSir Anthony Hope ("Anthony Hope") 1863–1933, English novelist and playwright.
  • antimony yellow — a poisonous pigment used in painting and enameling, consisting chiefly of lead antimoniate and characterized by its fugitive yellow color, rapid drying rate, and strong film-forming properties.
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bait and switch — Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
  • bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
  • bat-wing sleeve — formed, shaped, etc., like the wing of a bat.
  • battle of wills — A battle of wills is a situation that involves people who try to defeat each other by refusing to change their own aims or demands and hoping that their opponents will weaken first.
  • be a wake-up to — to be fully alert to (a person, thing, action, etc)
  • be just as well — If you say that something that has happened is just as well, you mean that it is fortunate that it happened in the way it did.
  • be lost without — If you say that you would be lost without someone or something, you mean that you would be unhappy or unable to work properly without them.
  • be of two minds — to be undecided or irresolute
  • beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
  • beat all hollow — to outdo or surpass by far
  • beef wellington — a lightly roasted beef fillet covered with pâté de foie gras, wrapped in pastry, and then baked
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • big white chief — an important person, boss, or leader
  • biot-savart law — the law that the magnetic induction near a long, straight conductor, as wire, varies inversely as the distance from the conductor and directly as the intensity of the current in the conductor.
  • bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • blackwall hitch — a knot for hooking tackle to the end of a rope, holding fast when pulled but otherwise loose
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • bowstring truss — a structural truss consisting of a curved top chord meeting a bottom chord at each end.
  • brown-tail moth — a white moth, Nygmia phaerrhoea, having a brown tuft at the end of the abdomen, the larvae of which feed on the foliage of various shade and fruit trees.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • brownian motion — the irregular motion of small particles suspended in a liquid or a gas, caused by the bombardment of the particles by molecules of the medium: first observed by Robert Brown in 1827.
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • buys-ballot law — the law stating that if one stands with one's back to the wind, in the Northern Hemisphere the atmospheric pressure will be lower on one's left and in the Southern Hemisphere it will be lower on one's right: descriptive of the relationship of horizontal winds to atmospheric pressure.
  • caldecott award — an annual award in the U.S. for an outstanding illustrated juvenile book.
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.

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