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

  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • 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
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • 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.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
  • tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
  • tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
  • twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
  • 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-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
  • western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
  • wilcoxon test — a statistical test for the relative size of the scores of the same or matched subjects under two experimental conditions by comparing the distributions for positive and negative differences of the ranks of their absolute values
  • 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
  • witching hour — midnight: a rendezvous at the witching hour.
  • wolffian duct — a duct, draining the mesonephros of the embryo, that becomes the vas deferens in males and vestigial in females.
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