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13-letter words containing c, d, r, w

  • academy award — any of the annual awards for artistic and technical achievement given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  • ass backwards — in an order or way reverse from the usual: You've sewn the sleeve on assbackwards.
  • ass-backwards — of or in a way that is particularly contrary to the usual way, confusing, etc.
  • backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • binding screw — a screw used to secure one thing to another
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • bladder wrack — any of various brown algae (genera Ascophyllum and Fucus), having a flattened body and conspicuous air bladders
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
  • chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
  • cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • 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.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • crowd control — the management of crowds at sporting events, demonstrations, etc, to prevent trouble
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd surfing — the practice of being passed over the top of a crowd of people such as an audience at a pop concert
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • 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.
  • crowdsourcing — Crowdsourcing is the practice of getting ideas or help on a project from a large number of people, usually through the Internet.
  • crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
  • 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.
  • dick size war — penis war
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • 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.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).

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