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15-letter words containing c, h, o, w

  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
  • child endowment — a social security payment for dependent children
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chinless wonder — a person, esp an upper-class one, lacking strength of character
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • christcross-row — the alphabet.
  • coachwhip snake — a slender nonvenomous snake, Masticophis flagellum, of the US
  • coffee whitener — a milk substitute to put in coffee
  • cooktown orchid — a purple Australian orchid, Dendrobium bigibbum, found in Queensland, of which it is the floral emblem
  • counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
  • craftswomanship — The body of skills, techniques, and expertise of (a) feminine craft(s).
  • crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
  • crown of thorns — a climbing spurge, Euphorbia milii splendens, of Madagascar, having stems covered with spines.
  • crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
  • how come/how so — You ask 'How come?' or 'How so?' when you are surprised by something and are asking why it happened or was said.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • ignition switch — (on a vehicle) the part that sets the process of ignition in motion once the ignition key is turned; also a button used for the same purpose
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • level two cache — secondary cache
  • low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
  • low-cholesterol — containing little dietary cholesterol
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • new port richey — a town in central Florida.
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • nightwatchwoman — (rare) The female equivalent of a nightwatchman.
  • noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
  • norwich terrier — one of an English breed of small, short-legged terriers having a straight, wiry, red, gray, or black-and-tan coat, and erect ears that distinguish it from the Norfolk terrier.
  • once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • one-two (punch) — a sequence of two quick punches, esp. a jab with the left hand followed at once by a hard blow with the right
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • play havoc with — bring chaos to
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • scotch woodcock — toast spread with anchovy paste and topped with loosely scrambled eggs.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased

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