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13-letter words containing c, o, d, w, a

  • academic gown — a loose garment like a very light coat with wide sleeves worn over a person's outer clothes and indicating academic status
  • acknowledging — Present participle of acknowledg.
  • backward roll — a gymnastic roll that is performed with the feet going first and the rest of the body and the head following
  • backwardation — the difference between the spot price for a commodity, including rent and interest, and the forward price
  • cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
  • chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • 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.
  • cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • 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.
  • henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
  • hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • 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.
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • once and away — conclusively
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • 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
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • 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 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
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed

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