13-letter words containing c, o, w, e, l
- 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.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
- one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
- 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
- scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
- screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
- scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
- 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
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- 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
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- 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-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.