15-letter words containing w, i, l, o, a, n
- railway network — a system of intersecting rail routes
- railway station — train stop, railroad station
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- 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
- streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
- 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.
- thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
- two-dimensional — having the dimensions of height and width only: a two-dimensional surface.
- 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
- water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
- whaling station — a place where the carcases of whales were processed
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- wild and woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- wild-and-woolly — unrestrained; lawless: a wild-and-woolly frontier town.
- 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.
- wind-pollinated — being pollinated by airborne pollen.
- windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
- window cleaning — the task of washing and shining windows
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- withholding tax — that part of an employee's tax liability withheld by the employer from wages or salary and paid directly to the government.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
- working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- 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.