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13-letter words containing a, r, o, w

  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
  • cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • down the road — a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway.
  • down to earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • down-to-earth — practical and realistic: a down-to-earth person.
  • downheartedly — In a downhearted manner.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • downregulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of downregulate.
  • draughtswoman — Alternative spelling of draftswoman.
  • draw the shot — to deliver the bowl in such a way that it approaches the jack
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • dropped waist — the waistline of a dress, gown, or the like when it is placed at the hips rather than at the natural waist.
  • earning power — business: ability to profit
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • edward gibbon — Edward, 1737–94, English historian.
  • edward lorenz — (person)   A mathematical meteorologist who discovered the Lorenz attractor in the 1960s.
  • european wasp — a large black-and-yellow banded wasp, Vespula germanica, native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, now established in Australasia and the US
  • fairy swallow — a variety of domestic fancy pigeon having blue-and-white plumage and heavily muffed feet
  • fare-you-well — a state of perfection: The meal was done to a fare-thee-well.
  • fast follower — a company that is quick to pick up good new ideas from other companies
  • field sparrow — a common North American finch, Spizella pusilla, found in brushy pasturelands.
  • firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
  • flame-thrower — an implement that kills weeds by scorching them with a directed flow of flaming gas.
  • flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
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