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12-letter words containing c, o, d, w

  • highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
  • knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
  • knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
  • knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • 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.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • network card — network interface controller
  • onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
  • overcrowding — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • postcardware — Shareware that borders on freeware, in that the author requests only that satisfied users send a postcard of their home town or something. (This practice, silly as it might seem, serves to remind users that they are otherwise getting something for nothing, and may also be psychologically related to real estate "sales" in which $1 changes hands just to keep the transaction from being a gift.)
  • powder chest — a small wooden box containing a charge of powder, old nails, scrap iron, etc., formerly secured over the side of a ship and exploded on the attempt of an enemy to board.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
  • redwood city — a city in W California.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • second world — the world's industrialized nations other than the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • shadow dance — a dance in which shadows of the dancers are cast on a screen.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • snow-covered — Snow-covered places and things are covered over with snow.
  • sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
  • 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
  • the in-crowd — fashionable people; top people
  • tow-coloured — pale yellow; flaxen
  • trickle-down — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • two-cylinder — (of an engine) having two cylinders
  • watchdogging — a dog kept to guard property.
  • water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waxed cotton — cotton that is treated with wax to make it waterproof
  • well-clothed — to dress; attire.
  • well-coached — a large, horse-drawn, four-wheeled carriage, usually enclosed.
  • well-covered — to be or serve as a covering for; extend over; rest on the surface of: Snow covered the fields.
  • well-stocked — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • wine-colored — of the color of wine; dark red.
  • witch doctor — a person in some societies who attempts to cure sickness and to exorcise evil spirits by the use of magic.
  • woman doctor — a female doctor
  • wonder child — an unusually intelligent or talented child; prodigy; wunderkind.
  • wonderstruck — (of a person) experiencing a sudden feeling of awed delight or wonder.
  • wood alcohol — methyl alcohol.
  • wood carving — making sculptures from wood
  • wood cudweed — a weedy, composite plant, Gnaphalium sylvaticum, of the North Temperate Zone, having woolly foliage and numerous, dirty-white flowerheads in a leafy spike.
  • woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
  • woodchippers — Plural form of woodchipper.
  • woodchoppers — Plural form of woodchopper.
  • word picture — a description in words, especially one that is unusually vivid: She drew a word picture of a South Pacific sunset.
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