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15-letter words containing w, t, b

  • on the port bow — within 45 degrees to the port of straight ahead
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • qwerty keyboard — a keyboard having the arrangement of alphabetical and numerical keys found on the traditional typewriter
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • rub elbows with — the bend or joint of the human arm between upper arm and forearm.
  • sam browne belt — a sword belt having a supporting strap over the right shoulder, formerly worn by officers in the U.S. Army, now sometimes worn as part of the uniform by police officers, guards, and army officers in other nations.
  • satin bowerbird — the largest Australian bowerbird, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the male of which has lustrous blue plumage
  • show to a table — When you show a customer to a table in a restaurant, you take them to the table where you want them to sit and help them sit down.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • 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.
  • strawberry bass — the black crappie. See under crappie.
  • strawberry bush — an E North American shrub or small tree, Euonymus americanus, having pendulous capsules that split when ripe to reveal scarlet seeds: family Celastraceae
  • strawberry dish — a shallow, circular fruit dish with a fluted or pierced border.
  • strawberry mark — a small, reddish, slightly raised birthmark.
  • strawberry roan — a horse with a reddish coat that is liberally flecked with white hairs.
  • strawberry tree — an evergreen shrub or tree, Arbutus unedo, of the heath family, native to southern Europe, bearing a scarlet, strawberrylike fruit.
  • sweep the board — (in gambling) to win all the cards or money
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • 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
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • throw overboard — to reject or abandon
  • titius-bode law — Bode's law.
  • to draw a blank — If you draw a blank when you are looking for someone or something, you do not succeed in finding them.
  • tobacco budworm — the larva of a noctuid moth, Heliothis virescens, that damages the buds and young leaves of tobacco.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • troubled waters — a confused or chaotic state of affairs: The situation was terrible, but like many politicians he was attracted by troubled waters.
  • tunbridge wells — a city in SW Kent, in SE England: mineral springs; resort.
  • unanswerability — the quality of not being answerable or contestable
  • upward mobility — movement from one social level to a higher one (upward mobility) or a lower one (downward mobility) as by changing jobs or marrying.
  • wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
  • walloon brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the S part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 360 717 (2004 est). Area: 1091 sq km (421 sq miles)
  • warrantableness — Quality of being warrantable.
  • water-based mud — Water-based mud is a type of drilling mud consisting mainly of water, which has additives to modify it and make it more effective.
  • wattle and daub — Also, wattle and dab. a building technique employing wattles plastered with clay and mud.
  • weather balloon — sounding balloon.
  • weatherboarding — an early type of board used as a siding for a building.
  • wedding banquet — a lavish meal served after a wedding ceremony
  • well-brought-up — If you say that someone, especially a child, is well-brought-up, you mean that they are very polite because they have been taught good manners.
  • well-elaborated — worked out with great care and nicety of detail; executed with great minuteness: elaborate preparations; elaborate care. Synonyms: perfected, painstaking. Antonyms: simple.
  • wellington boot — a leather boot with the front part of the top extending above the knee.
  • west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
  • wheatgerm bread — bread made with wheat germ
  • whistle-blowing — a person who informs on another or makes public disclosure of corruption or wrongdoing.
  • white bear lake — a city in E Minnesota: summer resort.
  • widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow
  • wild strawberry — uncultivated plant bearing red fruit
  • william gilbert — Cass, 1859–1934, U.S. architect.
  • william webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
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