13-letter words containing c, e, l, w
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- 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.
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- 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.
- 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.
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- 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.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- indecency law — the law relating to indecency
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- 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
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- 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.