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15-letter words containing w, a, g, e

  • language lawyer — A person, usually an experienced or senior software engineer, who is intimately familiar with many or most of the numerous restrictions and features (both useful and esoteric) applicable to one or more computer programming languages. A language lawyer is distinguished by the ability to show you the five sentences scattered through a 200-page manual that together imply the answer to your question "if only you had thought to look there". Compare wizard, legal, legalese.
  • law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • new high german — the High German language since c1500.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • queen's highway — king's highway.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
  • sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
  • swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
  • to sow gapeseed — to stare in a gaping manner instead of attending to business
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • trigger warning — a stated warning that the content of a text, video, etc., may upset or offend some people, especially those who have previously experienced a related trauma: a blog post with a trigger warning for rape.
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • viewing gallery — an area in a building or outside for viewing an activity, the surrounding scenery, etc
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • wage bargaining — discussions between representatives of employees and employers in order to agree levels of pay
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