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15-letter words containing w, e, r, d

  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • well-remembered — to recall to the mind by an act or effort of memory; think of again: I'll try to remember the exact date.
  • well-understood — simple past tense and past participle of understand.
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • wiener neustadt — a city in E Austria, in Lower Austria. Pop: 37 627 (2002)
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
  • 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 resident — a person who spends the winter in a particular place
  • with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
  • with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
  • wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wondermongering — the promising of miracles
  • wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
  • word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
  • work/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
  • worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
  • world-wide wait — (humour)   A pejorative expansion of WWW reflecting on the slowness of some network connections and sites.
  • wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
  • wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
  • write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure
  • wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
  • yellow lead ore — wulfenite.
  • 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.
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