15-letter words containing w, e, n
- 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.
- well-ventilated — to provide (a room, mine, etc.) with fresh air in place of air that has been used or contaminated.
- wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- 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)
- wernicke's area — a portion of the left posterior temporal lobe of the brain, involved in the ability to understand words.
- west carrollton — a town in W Ohio.
- west des moines — a city in S central Iowa, near Des Moines.
- west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
- west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
- west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
- western hemlock — a tall, narrow hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, of western North America: the state tree of Washington.
- western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
- western reserve — a tract of land in NE Ohio reserved by Connecticut (1786) when its rights to other land in the western U.S. were ceded to the federal government; relinquished in 1800.
- western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
- western tanager — a tanager, Piranga ludoviciana, of western North America, the male of which is black, yellow, and orange-red.
- westphalian ham — a hard German ham with a distinctive flavor derived from being smoked over beechwood and juniper.
- whalebone whale — any whale of the suborder Mysticeti, having plates of whalebone on the sides of the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water.
- what's-her-name — a girl or woman whose name is unknown, temporarily forgotten, or deliberately overlooked
- what's-his-name — man: forgotten name
- wheaten terrier — soft-coated wheaten terrier.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- where one lives — in one's sensitive or defenceless position
- whip into shape — to bring by vigorous action into the proper or desired condition
- whippersnappers — Plural form of whippersnapper.
- whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
- white lightning — moonshine (def 1).
- 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
- white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.
- whitley council — any of a number of organizations made up of representatives of employees and employers for joint consultation on and settlement of industrial relations and conditions for a particular industry or service
- whoopee cushion — a type of cushion or pillow used as a practical joke that, when sat upon, produces a loud noise resembling flatulence.
- wide-angle lens — A wide-angle lens is a lens which allows you to photograph a wider view than a normal lens.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
- widow's pension — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment made to a widow
- wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
- wilderness area — a region whose natural growth is protected by legislation and whose recreational and industrial use is restricted.
- 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.
- win one's spurs — a U -shaped device that slips over and straps to the heel of a boot and has a blunt, pointed, or roweled projection at the back for use by a mounted rider to urge a horse forward.
- winchester disk — a hard disk that is permanently mounted in its unit.
- wind instrument — a musical instrument sounded by the breath or other air current, as the trumpet, trombone, clarinet, or flute.
- wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
- window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
- window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- window envelope — an envelope with a transparent opening through which the address on the enclosure may be read.
- window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- windows sockets — (networking, standard) (Winsock) A specification for Microsoft Windows network software, describing how applications can access network services, especially TCP/IP. Winsock is intended to provide a single API to which application developers should program and to which multiple network software vendors should conform. For any particular version of Microsoft Windows, it defines a binary interface (ABI) such that an application written to the Windows Sockets API can work with a conformant protocol implementation from any network software vendor. Winsock was conceived at Fall Interop '91 during a Birds of a Feather session. Windows Sockets is supported by Microsoft Windows, Windows for Workgroups, Win32s, Windows 95 and Windows NT. It will support protocols other than TCP/IP. Under Windows NT, Microsoft will provide Windows Sockets support over TCP/IP and IPX/SPX. DEC will be implementing DECNet. Windows NT will include mechanisms for multiple protocol support in Windows Sockets, both 32-bit and 16 bit. Mark Towfiq said, "The next rev. of Winsock will not be until toward the end of 1993. We need 1.1 of the API to become firmly settled and implemented first." Currently NetManage (NEWT), Distinct, FTP and Frontier are shipping Winsock TCP/IP stacks, as is Microsoft (Windows NT and TCP/IP for WFW), Beame & Whiteside Software (v1.1 compliant), and Sun PC-NFS. Windows 95 has "dial-up networking" which supports Winsock and TCP/IP. winsock.dll is available from some TCP/IP stack vendors. Novell has one in beta for their Lan Workplace for DOS. Peter Tattam <[email protected]> is alpha-testing a shareware Windows Sockets compliant TCP/IP stack ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winsock.zip. and ftp://ftp.utas.edu.au/pc/trumpet/winsock/winpkt.com.