15-letter words containing w, o, r
- windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
- window dressing — the art, act, or technique of trimming the display windows of a store.
- 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.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- winter holidays — a period of rest from work or studies taken in winter
- winter solstice — the solstice on or about December 21st that marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
- wintergreen oil — methyl salicylate.
- with good grace — elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action: We watched her skate with effortless grace across the ice. Synonyms: attractiveness, charm, gracefulness, comeliness, ease, lissomeness, fluidity. Antonyms: stiffness, ugliness, awkwardness, clumsiness; klutziness.
- with one accord — If a number of people do something with one accord, they do it together or at the same time, because they agree about what should be done.
- with respect to — as regards
- without reserve — without reservations; fully; wholeheartedly
- wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
- wolverine state — Michigan (used as a nickname).
- women's shelter — woman's refuge
- wonder-stricken — struck or affected with wonder.
- wondermongering — the promising of miracles
- wood turpentine — turpentine obtained from pine trees.
- worcester china — porcelain articles made in Worcester (England) from 1751 in a factory that became, in 1862, the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company
- worcester sauce — a commercially prepared piquant sauce, made from a basis of soy sauce, with vinegar, spices, etc
- word processing — writing, editing, and production of documents, as letters, reports, and books, through the use of a computer program or a complete computer system designed to facilitate rapid and efficient manipulation of text. Abbreviation: WP.
- work experience — temporary job placement
- work oneself up — become overwrought
- work/do wonders — If you say that a person or thing works wonders or does wonders, you mean that they have a very good effect on something.
- worker director — a worker elected to the governing board of a business concern to represent the interests of the employees in decision making
- working capital — the amount of capital needed to carry on a business.
- working drawing — an accurately measured and detailed drawing of a structure, machine, etc., or of any part of one, used as a guide to workers in constructing it.
- working holiday — trip combining vacation with job experience
- working storage — the amount of memory used to temporarily store results or other data while a program is running.
- world-wide wait — (humour) A pejorative expansion of WWW reflecting on the slowness of some network connections and sites.
- worm's eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- worm's-eye view — a perspective seen from below or from a low or inferior position: The new man will get a worm's-eye view of the corporate structure.
- wraparound care — a childcare facility intended to help working parents, in which young children are looked after before and after school
- wreathed column — a column having a twisted or spiral form.
- writ of summons — a writ requiring one to appear in court to answer a complaint.
- write-protected — (of a computer disk) having been protected from accidental writing or erasure
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- wrongheadedness — The state of being wrongheaded.
- yellow lead ore — wulfenite.
- 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.