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14-letter words containing a, w

  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class 5 switch — (communications)   The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • commercial law — business law
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • daffadowndilly — a daffodil
  • daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • descartes' law — Snell's law.
  • detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
  • diamond willow — wood that may come from any species of willow and has a diamond pattern in the grain, used for making walking sticks, table lamps, etc
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