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15-letter words containing w, t, g

  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • intertwistingly — by intertwisting
  • label switching — (networking)   A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
  • lady-in-waiting — a lady who is in attendance upon a queen or princess.
  • lake washington — a lake in W Washington, forming the E boundary of the city of Seattle: linked by canal with Puget Sound. Length: about 32 km (20 miles). Width: 6 km (4 miles)
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • light flyweight — an amateur boxer weighing not more than 48 kg (106 pounds)
  • lobster newburg — (sometimes lowercase) lobster cooked in a thick seasoned cream sauce made with sherry or brandy.
  • long sweetening — liquid sweetening, as maple syrup, molasses, or sorghum.
  • lord-in-waiting — a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.
  • maid-in-waiting — an unmarried woman who serves as an attendant to a queen or princess; lady-in-waiting.
  • mid-heavyweight — a professional wrestler weighing 199–209 pounds (91–95 kg)
  • mouthwateringly — In a mouthwatering manner.
  • moving stairway — escalator (def 1).
  • multiwavelength — Involving, or composed of, multiple wavelengths.
  • mushroom growth — rapid increase or growth
  • natural wastage — Natural wastage is the process of employees leaving their jobs because they want to retire or move to other jobs, rather than because their employer makes them leave.
  • navigation laws — laws relating to navigation
  • network segment — (networking)   A part of an Ethernet or other network, on which all message traffic is common to all nodes, i.e. it is broadcast from one node on the segment and received by all others. This is normally because the segment is a single continuous conductor, though it may include repeaters(?). Since all nodes share the physical medium, collision detection or some other protocol is required to determine whether a message was transmitted without interference from other nodes. The receiving node inspects the destination address of a packet to tell if it was (one of) the intended recipient(s). Communication between nodes on different segments is via one or more routers.
  • nightwatchwoman — (rare) The female equivalent of a nightwatchman.
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • north kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • personal growth — development as an individual
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
  • port washington — a town on NW Long Island, in SE New York.
  • reading the law — that part of the morning service on Sabbaths, festivals, and Mondays and Thursdays during which a passage is read from the Torah scrolls
  • reviewing stand — A reviewing stand is a special raised platform from which military and political leaders watch military parades.
  • rowland heights — a city in SW California, near Los Angeles.
  • sergeant at law — a noncommissioned army officer of a rank above that of corporal.
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • south kingstown — a town in S central Rhode Island.
  • sparkling water — soda water (def 1).
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stoke newington — former metropolitan borough of London, now part of Hackney
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • swallow-tanager — a tropical American bird, Tersina viridis, related to the true tanagers but with longer, swallowlike wings.
  • sweating system — the practice of employing workers in sweatshops.
  • swimming trunks — men's swimsuit shorts
  • swing both ways — to enjoy sexual partners of both sexes
  • take down a peg — to lower the pride or conceit of; humble or dispirit
  • take lying down — to be in a horizontal, recumbent, or prostrate position, as on a bed or the ground; recline. Antonyms: stand.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • ten-pin bowling — game of skittles
  • the working man — working class people collectively
  • the wrong track — the incorrect line of investigation, inquiry, etc
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