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13-letter words containing c, a, w

  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swamp cabbage — skunk cabbage.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • sweet cassava — any of several tropical American plants belonging to the genus Manihot, of the spurge family, as M. esculenta (bitter cassava) and M. dulcis (sweet cassava) cultivated for their tuberous roots, which yield important food products.
  • swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • the new black — If you say that a particular colour is the new black, you mean that it has become fashionable.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • wacky tobacky — marijuana.
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
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