15-letter words containing t, w
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
- field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
- fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
- fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
- first world war — World War I.
- flow of control — control flow
- flow of spirits — natural happiness
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
- follow-up visit — a visit made as a follow-up to an initial visit
- fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
- gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
- get a wiggle on — to hurry up
- get the wind up — to become frightened
- get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
- go through with — to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- grasp at straws — a single stalk or stem, especially of certain species of grain, chiefly wheat, rye, oats, and barley.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- gregorian water — a mixture of water, salt, ashes, and wine, blessed and sprinkled over the altar in the consecration of a church.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
- growth industry — an industry that is experiencing rapid growth
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.
- hard row to hoe — a number of persons or things arranged in a line, especially a straight line: a row of apple trees.
- have (down) pat — to know or have memorized thoroughly
- have a way with — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
- have a whack at — to aim a blow at
- have to do with — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- have words with — to argue angrily with
- hawaiian guitar — a six-to-eight-string electric guitar, fretted with a piece of metal or bone to produce a whining, glissando sound, played in a horizontal position usually resting on the performer's knees or on a stand, and much used by country music performers.
- hazardous waste — any industrial by-product, especially from the manufacture of chemicals, that is destructive to the environment or dangerous to the health of people or animals: Hazardous wastes often contaminate ground water.