15-letter words containing w, a, e, n, s
- whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
- white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
- white mountains — a mountain range in the US, chiefly in N New Hampshire: part of the Appalachians. Highest peak: Mount Washington, 1917 m (6288 ft)
- white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
- 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)
- 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
- 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.
- winter quarters — housing or accommodation for the winter, esp for military personnel
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
- wittgensteinian — Ludwig (Josef Johann) [loot-vikh yoh-zef yoh-hahn,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx ˈyoʊ zɛf ˈyoʊ hɑn,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1889–1951, Austrian philosopher.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
- worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
- wrestling match — sport: contention by grappling opponent
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.