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15-letter words containing w, a, g, o, n

  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • 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
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • 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
  • unknowledgeable — possessing or exhibiting knowledge, insight, or understanding; intelligent; well-informed; discerning; perceptive.
  • völkerwanderung — the migration of peoples, esp of Germanic and Slavic peoples into S and W Europe from 2nd to 11th centuries
  • wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
  • walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
  • walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
  • washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
  • washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
  • washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • 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).
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
  • working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
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