15-letter words containing w, l
- 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
- 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.
- city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
- clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
- 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.
- cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
- 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
- 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
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- cotton bollworm — corn earworm.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
- crawling horror — (jargon) Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
- criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
- crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
- curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- daffodil yellow — a bright yellow colour
- daily newspaper — A daily newspaper is a newspaper that is published every day of the week except Sunday.
- daughter-in-law — Someone's daughter-in-law is the wife of their son.
- de broglie wave — a hypothetical wave associated with the motion of a particle of atomic or subatomic size that describes effects such as the diffraction of beams of particles by crystals.
- delaware jargon — a jargon based on Unami Delaware, now extinct but formerly used as a lingua franca in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
- demolition work — the work of knocking down buildings
- dissolving view — an effect created by the projection of slides on a screen in such a way that each picture seems to dissolve into the succeeding one without an interval in between.
- distilled water — water from which impurities, as dissolved salts and colloidal particles, have been removed by one or more processes of distillation; chemically pure water.
- do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
- down the middle — If you divide or split something down the middle, you divide or split it into two equal halves or groups.
- downhill skiing — the sport of skiing down a slope, usually making turns and various maneuvers.
- downward closed — closure
- draft-mule work — drudgery
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- east longmeadow — a city in SW Massachusetts.