12-letter words containing c, l, a, w
- cylinder saw — crown saw.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
- kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
- larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
- law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
- lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
- lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
- lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
- majolicaware — goods made from majolica
- medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
- microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
- middle watch — the watch from midnight until 4 a.m.
- nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
- pascal's law — the law that an external pressure applied to a fluid in a closed vessel is uniformly transmitted throughout the fluid.
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- planck's law — the law that energy associated with electromagnetic radiation, as light, is composed of discrete quanta of energy, each quantum equal to Planck's constant times the corresponding frequency of the radiation: the fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
- rack railway — cog railway.
- reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
- rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
- scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
- school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
- schwann cell — a cell of the peripheral nervous system that wraps around a nerve fiber, jelly-roll fashion, forming the myelin sheath.
- shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
- sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
- snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
- st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- swamp locust — water locust.
- swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
- tack welding — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
- the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
- unwatchfully — in an unwatchful manner
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- waggle dance — a series of patterned movements performed by a scouting bee, communicating to other bees of the colony the direction and distance of a food source or hive site.