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

  • 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.
  • high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
  • how's tricks? — how are you?
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • 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.
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • 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
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • micro-brewery — A micro-brewery is a type of small brewery where beer is produced using traditional methods.
  • microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
  • microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
  • morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new economics — Keynesianism.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
  • once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
  • 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
  • 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
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • 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
  • scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • 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
  • 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
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • 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.
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