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15-letter words containing t, w

  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • christcross-row — the alphabet.
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
  • continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country dweller — a person who lives in the country
  • country western — country music
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
  • crescent wrench — a wrench with a head shaped like a crescent, having one movable jaw, adjusted by a screw to fit various sizes of nuts, bolts, etc.
  • crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
  • crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
  • crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
  • east longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.
  • eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • ennerdale water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
  • falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
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