15-letter words containing w, a, l, o, e

flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
get a wiggle on — to hurry up
giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
heads will roll — If you say that heads will roll as a result of something bad that has happened, you mean that people will be punished for it, especially by losing their jobs.
horizontal well — A horizontal well is a well which has sections that have been drilled at more than 80 degrees from the vertical in order to penetrate a greater length of the reservoir.
irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
ja well no fine — used to indicate reluctant acceptance
javelin thrower — a person who throws a javelin
knowledge-based — characterized by the dominance of information services as an area of growth
lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
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.
law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
legacy software — legacy system
levant wormseed — the dried, unexpanded flower heads of a wormwood, Artemisia cina (Levant wormseed) or the fruit of certain goosefoots, especially Chenopodium anthelminticum (or C. ambrosioides), the Mexican tea or American wormseed, used as an anthelmintic drug.
level two cache — secondary cache
low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
low earth orbit — (communications) (LEO) The kind of orbit used by communications satellites that will offer high bandwidth for video on demand, television, and Internet communications. A satellite in LEO, in contrast to one in a geostationary orbit, is not in a fixed position relative to the Earth's surface so several satellites are required to provide continuous service.
low pass filter — (electronics, graphics) A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
low-level waste — waste material contaminated by traces of radioactivity that can be disposed of in steel drums in concrete-lined trenches but not (since 1983) in the sea
low-maintenance — requiring little attention or upkeep
low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
lower east side — a section in the borough of Manhattan, New York: noted for its immigrant culture.
lower slobbovia — any place considered to be remote, poor, or unenlightened.
make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
meals on wheels — a program, usually one supported or subsidized by a charitable, social, or government agency, for delivering hot meals regularly to elderly, disabled, or convalescing persons who are housebound and cannot cook for themselves.
moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
motor voter law — a law that enables prospective voters to register when they obtain or renew a driver's license.
mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
multiphase flow — Multiphase flow is a type of flow that involves more than one fluid, for example a liquid and a gas, or two liquids that do not mix.
napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
nearly-new shop — a shop that sells secondhand clothes and other objects
neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
new south wales — a state in SE Australia. 309,433 sq. mi. (801,430 sq. km). Capital: Sydney.
newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy

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