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15-letter words containing w, e

  • blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
  • blow one's horn — to boast about oneself; brag
  • blow one's mind — (in a human or other conscious being) the element, part, substance, or process that reasons, thinks, feels, wills, perceives, judges, etc.: the processes of the human mind.
  • blue wood aster — a composite plant, Aster cordifolius, of North America, having heart-shaped leaves and pale-blue flowers.
  • borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • brand awareness — the extent to which consumers are aware of a particular product or service
  • brave new world — If someone refers to a brave new world, they are talking about a situation or system that has recently been created and that people think will be successful and fair.
  • breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
  • bronzing powder — the powder used in bronzing, consisting of alloys of bronze or brass
  • brown-and-serve — requiring only a brief period of browning, as in an oven, before being ready to serve: brown-and-serve rolls.
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffer overflow — (programming)   What happens when you try to store more data in a buffer than it can handle. This may be due to a mismatch in the processing rates of the producing and consuming processes (see overrun and firehose syndrome), or because the buffer is simply too small to hold all the data that must accumulate before a piece of it can be processed. For example, in a text-processing tool that crunches a line at a time, a short line buffer can result in lossage as input from a long line overflows the buffer and overwrites data beyond it. Good defensive programming would check for overflow on each character and stop accepting data when the buffer is full. See also spam, overrun screw.
  • building worker — a labourer, bricklayer, etc who works in the construction industry
  • 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.
  • campaign worker — a person who carries out duties for a political candidate or party, esp before an election
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • casement-window — a window sash opening on hinges that are generally attached to the upright side of its frame.
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cellar dwellers — the team at the bottom of a sports league
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • chewings fescue — a hardy, fine-leaved variety of fescue, Festuca rubra commutata, grown in the U.S. and New Zealand as a lawn grass.
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • citrus whitefly — See under whitefly.
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • 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
  • coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
  • conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
  • confederate war — the American Civil War.
  • conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
  • continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
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