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15-letter words containing w, e, d

  • old wives' tale — a traditional belief, story, or idea that is often of a superstitious nature.
  • old-boy network — an exclusive network that links members of a profession, social class, or organization or the alumni of a particular school through which the individuals assist one another in business, politics, etc.
  • onward progress — progress that advances or improves (a situation, etc)
  • orange hawkweed — a European composite plant, Hieracium aurantiacum, having orange, dandelionlike flowers, growing as a weed, especially in eastern North America.
  • orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
  • out of the wood — clear of or safe from dangers or doubts
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • outward journey — a journey leaving for a particular destination (as opposed top one returning home)
  • overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • packet-switched — packet switching
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
  • power save mode — (architecture)   A feature of a component or subsystem designed to actively reduce its power consumption when not in use. Almost any electronic device might benefit from having a power save mode but the most common application is for portable computers which attempt to conserve battery life by incorporating power saving modes in the CPU, display, disks, printer, or other units.
  • privately owned — owned by a private individual or organization, rather than by the state or a public body
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • psyllid yellows — a viral disease transmitted by the potato psyllid, causing the young leaves of potatoes, tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers to curl and turn yellow or purplish.
  • put the wind up — to frighten or alarm
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • read-write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • read/write head — an electromagnetic device, as in a disk or tape drive, that reads data from or writes data on a magnetic disk or tape.
  • 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 jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • red sandal wood — the fragrant heartwood of any of certain Asian trees of the genus Santalum, used for ornamental carving and burned as incense.
  • red-tailed hawk — a North American hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, dark brown above, whitish with black streaking below, and having a reddish-brown tail.
  • redwood seconds — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the time in seconds taken for fluid to flow through a standard orifice: accepted as standard in the UK in 1886
  • refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
  • rod pumped well — A rod pumped well is a well with a nodding donkey to remove fluid mechanically.
  • rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
  • round the twist — mad; eccentric
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • sb of few words — A person of few words says very little, especially about their opinions or feelings.
  • seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
  • seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
  • sewage disposal — waste processing
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
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