13-letter words containing c, h, a, w
- hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.
- master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
- night crawler — an earthworm.
- nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
- nightwatchman — Someone who guards a premises at night.
- nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
- outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- packet switch — packet switching
- periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
- powder charge — propellant (def 2).
- 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.
- reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
- research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
- sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
- sandwich beam — flitch beam.
- sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
- sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
- sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
- sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
- school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
- schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
- 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
- slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
- suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
- sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
- swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.