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.