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

  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • swainson's hawk — a migratory hawk, Buteo swainsoni, of western North America, that winters in southern South America.
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • 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.
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • venetian window — Palladian window.
  • w.h. richardson — Henry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • 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.
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • 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
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • weekend warrior — a reservist who attends weekend meetings of his or her unit in order to fulfill military obligations.
  • whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white mountains — a mountain range in the US, chiefly in N New Hampshire: part of the Appalachians. Highest peak: Mount Washington, 1917 m (6288 ft)
  • white snakeroot — a North American plant, Eupatorium urticaefolium, the roots or rhizomes of which have been used as a remedy for snakebite
  • wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
  • wilderness road — a 300-mile (500-km) route from eastern Virginia through the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky, explored by Daniel Boone in 1769 and marked as a trail by him and other pioneers in 1775: a major route for early settlers moving west.
  • wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
  • window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
  • winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
  • 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 one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
  • wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
  • worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
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