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15-letter words containing w, a, t, e, r, l

  • neural networks — any group of neurons that conduct impulses in a coordinated manner, as the assemblages of brain cells that record a visual stimulus.
  • 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
  • northeastwardly — Towards the northeast.
  • northwestwardly — Towards the northwest.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
  • 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
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
  • serjeant at law — (formerly in England) a barrister of a special rank, to which he was raised by a writ under the Great Seal
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • 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.
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tall meadow rue — a meadow rue, Thalictrum polygamum.
  • the lower karoo — one of the two divisions of the Karoo
  • the lower ranks — people who have a low rank in a military organization
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • 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
  • troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
  • tweet you later — (on the Twitter website) goodbye; see you later
  • two-star petrol — leaded petrol that has a low octane number; inferior leaded petrol
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
  • wallpaper paste — an adhesive used for attaching wallpaper to a surface
  • walrus mustache — a thick, shaggy mustache hanging down loosely at both ends.
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • water pimpernel — the brookweed.
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • water-repellent — having a finish that resists but is not impervious to water.
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
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