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

  • a stone's throw — If you say that one place is a stone's throw from another, you mean that the places are close to each other.
  • above the water — out of trouble or difficulty, esp financial trouble
  • adamawa-eastern — a branch of the Niger-Congo family of languages, centered in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and the Central African Republic, including Sango and Zande.
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • algaroth powder — antimony oxychloride.
  • almirante brown — a city in E Argentina, near Buenos Aires.
  • andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
  • answer the door — When you answer the door, you go and open the door because a visitor has knocked on it or rung the bell.
  • apprentice work — work done when young and a novice
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • attorney-at-law — a lawyer qualified to represent in court a party to a legal action
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • beam-power tube — a vacuum tube in which the stream of electrons flowing to the plate is focused by the action of a set of auxiliary, charged elements, giving an increase in output power.
  • before the wind — with the wind coming from astern
  • bittersweetness — the quality of being bittersweet
  • blasting powder — a form of gunpowder made with sodium nitrate instead of saltpeter, used chiefly for blasting rock, ore, etc.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • butterfly wedge — a wooden fastening in the form of a double dovetail for joining two boards at their edges.
  • caldecott award — an annual award in the U.S. for an outstanding illustrated juvenile book.
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • collected works — the works of a particular writer brought together into one volume or a set of volumes
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • country dweller — a person who lives in the country
  • country western — country music
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
  • crescent wrench — a wrench with a head shaped like a crescent, having one movable jaw, adjusted by a screw to fit various sizes of nuts, bolts, etc.
  • crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
  • daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
  • demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
  • distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
  • dougherty wagon — a horse- or mule-drawn passenger wagon having doors on the side, transverse seats, and canvas sides that can be rolled down.
  • downheartedness — The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
  • draft-mule work — drudgery
  • eat one's words — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • edwards plateau — a highland area in SW Texas. 2000–5000 feet (600–1500 meters) high.
  • electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere

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