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13-letter words containing c, e, l, w, a

  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • finback whale — rorqual
  • 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.
  • flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • indecency law — the law relating to indecency
  • kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lowerclassman — underclassman.
  • lowerclassmen — underclassman.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • 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.
  • sweet calamus — a plant, Acorus calamus, of the arum family, having long, sword-shaped leaves and a pungent, aromatic rootstock.
  • 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.
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • water lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • well-accepted — generally approved; usually regarded as normal, right, etc.: an accepted pronunciation of a word; an accepted theory.
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