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15-letter words containing w, a, d, i, s

  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • w.h. richardsonHenry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • wide-angle lens — A wide-angle lens is a lens which allows you to photograph a wider view than a normal lens.
  • wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • wilderness area — a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • withdrawal slip — a small paper form which has to be filled in before making a withdrawal of money from a bank, building society, etc
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