15-letter words containing w, i, s, e
- queen's highway — king's highway.
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
- raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
- 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.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
- reworked fossil — a fossil eroded from sediment and redeposited in younger sediment
- riverworthiness — (of a boat) the quality or state of being riverworthy
- rolling meadows — a city in NE Illinois, near Chicago.
- round the twist — mad; eccentric
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
- rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
- sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
- saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
- satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
- saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
- seaside sparrow — a species of sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, existing in two subspecies, one (Cape Sable seaside sparrow) having dark olive-drab plumage with a lighter breast and underbelly, and the other (dusky seaside sparrow) having bold black and white markings on the breast and underbelly: the dusky seaside sparrow is almost extinct.
- seidlitz powder — a laxative consisting of two powders, tartaric acid and a mixture of sodium bicarbonate and Rochelle salt (sodium potassium tartrate)
- self-worthiness — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.
- 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
- shadow minister — a member of the main opposition party in Parliament who would hold ministerial office if their party were in power
- share ownership — the owning of shares in a company
- shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
- shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
- sidewalk artist — an artist who draws pictures on the sidewalk, especially with colored chalk, as a means of soliciting money from passers-by.
- silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
- sit-down strike — a strike during which workers occupy their place of employment and refuse to work or allow others to work until the strike is settled.
- sneezing powder — a powder used to make people sneeze as a practical joke
- solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
- south milwaukee — a city in SE Wisconsin.
- sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
- spirit wrestler — a Doukhobor.
- spirits of wine — alcohol (def 1).
- stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
- stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
- stand in awe of — to respect and fear
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- stationary wave — standing wave.
- stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
- stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
- stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
- strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
- 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.
- subminimum wage — See example at subminimum (def 1).
- swamp white oak — an oak, Quercus bicolor, of eastern North America, yielding a hard, heavy wood used in shipbuilding, for making furniture, etc.
- sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.