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

  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • 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
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • 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
  • speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
  • 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.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • 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
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
  • well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
  • well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
  • well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school
  • werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
  • widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.
  • wind scorpion — sun spider.
  • windsor bench — a bench similar in construction to a Windsor chair.
  • windsor chair — a wooden chair of many varieties, having a spindle back and legs slanting outward: common in 18th-century England and in the American colonies.
  • windsor locks — a town in N Connecticut.
  • wine-coloured — of a dark red colour, sometimes with a purplish tinge
  • wire recorder — a forerunner of the tape recorder that recorded sound on a steel wire by magnetizing the wire as it passed an electromagnet.
  • wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
  • wonder-struck — struck or affected with wonder.
  • wood hyacinth — bluebell (def 2).
  • woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
  • wooden nickel — a useless thing; thing of no value
  • world process — change within time, regarded as meaningful in relation to a transcendent principle or plan.
  • world service — a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which transmits programmes in many languages around the world
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