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15-letter words containing w, e, n

  • question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • railway journey — a journey made by railway train
  • 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 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.
  • 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
  • rendering works — (used with a singular verb) a factory or plant that renders and processes livestock carcasses into tallow, hides, fertilizer, etc.
  • resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
  • 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.
  • riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
  • 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.
  • running bowline — a type of slipknot formed by running the standing line through the loop formed in a regular bowline
  • 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.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • 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
  • seasonal worker — a worker who is employed for a particular period of the year, such as harvest, or Christmas
  • self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
  • senior wrangler — (at Cambridge University) a candidate who has obtained first-class honours in Part II of the mathematics tripos and got the highest marks
  • 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
  • shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
  • share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • show one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
  • sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
  • 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.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
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