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15-letter words containing w, s, d

  • 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
  • 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.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • 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
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • sb of few words — A person of few words says very little, especially about their opinions or feelings.
  • scotch woodcock — toast spread with anchovy paste and topped with loosely scrambled eggs.
  • 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)
  • 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
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
  • shoot one's wad — a small mass, lump, or ball of anything: a wad of paper; a wad of tobacco.
  • short and sweet — having little length; not long.
  • short-eared owl — a streaked, buffy brown, cosmopolitan owl, Asio flammeus, having very short tufts of feathers on each side of the head.
  • shortwave radio — a radio that transmits or receives shortwaves.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shoulder weapon — a firearm that is fired while being held in the hands with the butt of the weapon braced against the shoulder.
  • show one's hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
  • 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
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • 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.
  • southeastwardly — toward the southeast
  • southwestwardly — toward the southwest
  • spawning ground — a place where fish deposit their eggs for fertilization
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • spread the word — make others aware
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
  • swedish massage — a massage employing techniques of manipulation and muscular exercise systematized in Sweden in the 19th century.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • sweetheart deal — any agreement in which a public body offers unduly favourable terms to a private company or individual
  • swellheadedness — the fact or state of being conceited
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • sword swallower — performer who puts swords in throat
  • sword-swallower — a performer who simulates the swallowing of swords
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • take one's word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • the devil's own — a very difficult or problematic (thing)
  • thorndike's law — the principle that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments, proposed by Edward Lee Thorndike (1874–1949), US psychologist
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