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15-letter words containing w, e, l

  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
  • sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
  • silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
  • slow-wave sleep — a recurrent period of deep sleep, typically totaling five or six hours a night, distinguished by the presence of slow brain waves and by very little dreaming.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • 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).
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • 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 seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
  • 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.
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • swinging single — an unmarried person who is sexually promiscuous
  • sword swallower — performer who puts swords in throat
  • sword-swallower — a performer who simulates the swallowing of swords
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • tall meadow rue — a meadow rue, Thalictrum polygamum.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the common weal — the good of society
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • 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 lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • 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)
  • the whole shoot — everything
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • to lead the way — If you lead the way along a particular route, you go along it in front of someone in order to show them where to go.
  • to my knowledge — as far as I am aware
  • tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.
  • 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.
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