15-letter words containing w, e
- faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- falling weather — wet weather, as rain or snow.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
- field chickweed — starry grasswort.
- field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
- fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
- fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- freshwater drum — an edible drum, Aplodinotus grunniens, of the fresh waters of North and Central America, sometimes reaching a weight of 60 pounds (27 kg).
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- gesamtkunstwerk — total art work; an artistic creation, as the music dramas of Richard Wagner, that synthesizes the elements of music, drama, spectacle, dance, etc.
- get a wiggle on — to hurry up
- get the wind up — to become frightened
- get wise to sth — If you get wise to something, you find out about it, especially when someone has been trying to keep it secret.
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- giant water bug — any of various aquatic bugs, as of the family Belostomatidae (giant water bug)
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- give it a whirl — If you decide to give an activity a whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
- go on one's way — If you go on your way, you continue with your journey.
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- goody two shoes — a goody-goody.
- goody two-shoes — goody-goody
- goody-two-shoes — a goody-goody.
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
- great white way — the theater district along Broadway, near Times Square in New York City.
- green with envy — If you say that someone is green with envy, you mean that they are very envious indeed.
- greenland whale — an arctic right whale, Balaena mysticetus, that is black with a cream-coloured throat
- gregorian water — a mixture of water, salt, ashes, and wine, blessed and sprinkled over the altar in the consecration of a church.
- grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
- griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-wave plate — a crystal thin enough to cause a phase difference of 180° between the ordinary and extraordinary rays of polarized light, thereby changing the direction of the plane of polarization.