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

  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
  • 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.
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
  • 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
  • wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • wallace nutting — Wallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
  • walpurgis night — (especially in medieval German folklore) the evening preceding the feast day of St. Walpurgis, when witches congregated, especially on the Brocken.
  • 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
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • weather through — to pass or go safely through a storm, peril, difficulty, etc.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
  • weekend cottage — a cottage where people spend weekends
  • weight training — weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • western tanager — a tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, of western North America, the male of which is black, yellow, and orange-red.
  • whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • william gilbert — Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
  • 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).
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • wittgensteinian — Ludwig (Josef Johann) [loot-vikh yoh-zef yoh-hahn,, lood-] /ˈlut vɪx ˈyoʊ zɛf ˈyoʊ hɑn,, ˈlud-/ (Show IPA), 1889–1951, Austrian philosopher.
  • working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
  • working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
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