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12-letter words containing c, r, a, w

  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
  • harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
  • kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
  • kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
  • microwavable — Of food, that is suitable for cooking in a microwave oven.
  • network card — network interface controller
  • nightcrawler — An earthworm of the species Lumbricus terrestris, known for its large size and nocturnal surfacings.
  • onward march — the continuing, advancing or improving movement (of situation, etc)
  • 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.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • 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.)
  • 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
  • quartz watch — a watch that is operated by the vibrations of a quartz crystal controlled by a microcircuit
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • ratchet down — If something ratchets down or is ratcheted down, it decreases by a fixed amount or degree, and seems unlikely to increase again.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • rock wallaby — any wallaby of the genus Petrogale, having a banded or striped coat, slender body, and long legs and feet, inhabiting caves and rocky areas in Australia.
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • school prawn — a common olive-green prawn, Metapenaeus macleayi
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • screw around — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
  • screw thread — Also called worm. the helical ridge of a screw.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
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