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

  • atomic power — nuclear power.
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • cap and gown — a cap with a flat top ( mortarboard) and a long robe, worn at some academic ceremonies, as commencement, and often used to symbolize the academic life
  • cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
  • cape-frowardCape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • capped elbow — a swelling of the elbow of a horse due to irritation caused by the hoof striking the elbow when lying down.
  • chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
  • co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
  • cock sparrow — a male sparrow
  • come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
  • companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
  • company town — a town built by a company for its employees
  • complex wave — a waveform consisting of a fundamental frequency with superimposed harmonics
  • computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
  • cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
  • cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
  • counterpower — an opposing power
  • crowd-puller — If you describe a performer or event as a crowd-puller, you mean that they attract a large audience.
  • crown canopy — canopy (def 4).
  • crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
  • curry powder — Curry powder is a powder made from a mixture of spices. It is used in cooking, especially when making curry.
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
  • face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
  • packed tower — A packed tower is a tall distillation vessel which uses packing.
  • pasch flower — pasqueflower
  • peacock worm — feather-duster worm.
  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
  • picture show — motion picture.
  • pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
  • plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
  • police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
  • poll watcher — a representative of a political party or of an organization running a candidate who is assigned to the polls on an election day to watch for violations of the laws that regulate voting, campaigning, etc.
  • 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.
  • power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
  • power vacuum — a situation when a government has no identifiable central authority
  • provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
  • provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
  • public works — government-funded construction
  • scapegallows — a criminal who escapes death by hanging or the gallows
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • swamp locust — water locust.
  • sweep-second — (on a timepiece) a second hand that is a sweep hand.
  • tapioca snow — snow pellets.
  • triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.

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