15-letter words containing w, i, g, o
- moving sidewalk — a moving surface, similar to a conveyor belt, for carrying pedestrians.
- moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
- navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
- nightwatchwoman — (rare) The female equivalent of a nightwatchman.
- nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
- north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
- orange milkweed — butterfly weed (def 1).
- outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
- outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
- port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
- powder magazine — a compartment for the storage of ammunition and explosives.
- 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.
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- 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
- 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
- sewage disposal — waste processing
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
- south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
- spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
- stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
- straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
- swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
- take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
- the working man — working class people collectively
- to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
- wage indexation — the linking of wages to an index representing the cost of living, so that they are automatically adjusted up or down as that rises or falls
- walking holiday — a holiday on which you walk a lot, esp in the countryside
- walking wounded — casualties, as of a military conflict, who are wounded but ambulatory.
- washing-up bowl — plastic bowl used for washing dishes
- washington lily — a lily, Lilium washingtonianum, of the western coast of the U.S., having whorled leaves and fragrant, purple-spotted white flowers.
- washington palm — a palm tree, Washingtonia filifera, of California and Florida, having large fan-shaped leaves and small black fruits
- weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
- whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
- what's cooking? — what's happening?
- whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
- window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
- window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- window shopping — browsing store displays
- window-dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- winesburg, ohio — a cycle of short stories (1919) by Sherwood Anderson.
- winning opening — the dedans, winning gallery, or grille.