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15-letter words containing w, r, i, t, e

  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • stationary wave — standing wave.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • 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.
  • symphony writer — a composer of an extended large-scale orchestral composition, usually with several movements, at least one of which is in sonata form
  • thankworthiness — the state or quality of being thankworthy or deserving thanks
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the lower rhine — the part of the Rhine River between Bonn, Germany, and the North Sea, and the area around it
  • the wherewithal — necessary funds, resources, or equipment (for something or to do something)
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
  • three-line whip — A three-line whip is a situation where the MPs in a political party are ordered to attend parliament and vote in a particular way on a particular issue.
  • to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
  • towers of hanoi — (games)   A classic computer science problem, invented by Edouard Lucas in 1883, often used as an example of recursion. "In the great temple at Benares, says he, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, rests a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, at the creation, God placed sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, and the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top one. This is the Tower of Bramah. Day and night unceasingly the priests transfer the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Bramah, which require that the priest on duty must not move more than one disc at a time and that he must place this disc on a needle so that there is no smaller disc below it. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which at the creation God placed them to one of the other needles, tower, temple, and Brahmins alike will crumble into dust, and with a thunderclap the world will vanish." The recursive solution is: Solve for n-1 discs recursively, then move the remaining largest disc to the free needle. Note that there is also a non-recursive solution: On odd-numbered moves, move the smallest sized disk clockwise. On even-numbered moves, make the single other move which is possible.
  • training wheels — a pair of small wheels attached one on each side of the rear wheel of a bicycle for stability while one is learning to ride.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • travelling wave — a wave carrying energy away from its source
  • trigger warning — a stated warning that the content of a text, video, etc., may upset or offend some people, especially those who have previously experienced a related trauma: a blog post with a trigger warning for rape.
  • trustworthiness — deserving of trust or confidence; dependable; reliable: The treasurer was not entirely trustworthy.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • twist one's arm — to combine, as two or more strands or threads, by winding together; intertwine.
  • two-thirds rule — a former rule in the Democratic Party, effective 1832–1936, requiring a vote of at least two thirds of its national convention delegates to nominate a presidential and vice-presidential candidate.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • university wits — a name given to an Elizabethan group of university-trained playwrights and pamphleteers, among them Robert Greene, John Lyly, Thomas Nash, and George Peele.
  • unseaworthiness — constructed, outfitted, manned, and in all respects fitted for a voyage at sea.
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • water authority — an official body which is responsible for providing water
  • water pimpernel — the brookweed.
  • water pollution — the pollution of the sea and rivers
  • water-resistant — resisting though not entirely preventing the penetration of water.
  • weather station — an installation equipped and used for meteorological observation.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
  • wedding present — a present given to a couple when they get married
  • weight training — weightlifting done as a conditioning exercise.
  • welfare statism — the belief in or practices of a welfare state.
  • well-accredited — officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
  • well-advertised — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • well-integrated — combining or coordinating separate elements so as to provide a harmonious, interrelated whole: an integrated plot; an integrated course of study.
  • west nile fever — a viral disease, caused by a flavivirus and spread by a mosquito (Culex pipiens), that results in encephalitis
  • west nile virus — an illness caused by a chiefly mosquito-borne virus of the genus Flavivirus, characterized in a small percentage of infected persons by fever, headache, muscle weakness, and sometimes encephalitis or meningitis.
  • west wind drift — Antarctic Circumpolar Current.
  • western juniper — a round-headed tree, Juniperus occidentalis, of the western coast of the U.S., having scalelike leaves with a gland on the back and oval, blue-black fruit.
  • western springs — a city in NE Illinois.
  • wheaten terrier — soft-coated wheaten terrier.
  • whip-tailed ray — a whipray.
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
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