15-letter words containing w, e, l, o, r, n
- well-controlled — to exercise restraint or direction over; dominate; command: The car is difficult to control at high speeds. That zone is controlled by enemy troops.
- well-formedness — rightly or pleasingly formed: a well-formed contour.
- well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
- wentworth scale — a scale for specifying the sizes (diameters) of sedimentary particles, ranging from clay particles (less than 1⁄256 mm) to boulders (over 256 mm)
- west carrollton — a town in W Ohio.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- 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.
- wilson's petrel — a small petrel, Oceanites oceanicus, that breeds in the Southern Hemisphere but ranges into the North Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- winter solstice — the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
- wintergreen oil — methyl salicylate.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
- women's shelter — woman's refuge
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- yellow mandarin — (in the Chinese Empire) a member of any of the nine ranks of public officials, each distinguished by a particular kind of button worn on the cap.