14-letter words containing c, a, w, e
- 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
- 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.
- 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).
- 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)
- 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
- daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- down the hatch — drinks toast
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.