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

  • shawl collar — a rolled collar and lapel in one piece that curves from the back of the neck down to the front closure of a single-breasted or double-breasted garment.
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • snow crystal — a crystal of ice sufficiently heavy to fall from the atmosphere.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • st. lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • stomach worm — a nematode, Haemonchus contortus, parasitic in the stomach of sheep, cattle, and related animals.
  • surface wave — a seismic wave that travels along or parallel to the earth's surface (distinguished from body wave).
  • swagger coat — a woman's pyramid-shaped coat with a full flared back and usually raglan sleeves, first popularized in the 1930s.
  • swashbuckler — a swaggering swordsman, soldier, or adventurer; daredevil.
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • the cold war — the period (1945-91) of cold war between the Soviet Union and its Communist allies and the U.S. and its non-Communist allies
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • wall creeper — a small, gray and crimson Old World bird, Tichodroma muraria, that inhabits cliffs in mountainous areas.
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
  • walnut creek — a town in W California.
  • wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
  • warm welcome — friendly or enthusiastic reception
  • warrant card — a police officer's proof of identity
  • warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
  • watchstander — (US) A person who is on watch on a ship.
  • water cannon — a truck-mounted hose or pipe that shoots a jet of water through a nozzle at extremely high pressure, used especially in dispersing rioters or demonstrators.
  • water closet — an enclosed room or compartment containing a toilet bowl fitted with a mechanism for flushing.
  • water clover — a common freshwater fern, Marsilea quadrifolia, of lake edges and quiet ponds, having roots embedded in the bottom, very slender and often tangled stems, and floating, cloverlike leaves composed of four leaflets.
  • water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
  • water cooler — a container for holding drinking water that is cooled and drawn off by a faucet or spigot.
  • water jacket — a water-filled envelope or container surrounding a machine, engine, or part for cooling purposes, esp the casing around the cylinder block of a pump or internal-combustion engine
  • water locust — a spiny tree, Gleditsia aquatica, of the legume family, native to the southeastern coastal U.S., having pinnate leaves, greenish-yellow, bell-shaped flowers, and long-stalked, thin pods.
  • water pocket — a cavity at the foot of a cliff formed by the falling action of an intermittent stream.
  • water-cooled — kept from overheating by having water circulated around or through it, as in pipes or a water jacket
  • water-jacket — to surround or fit with a water jacket.
  • water-locked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • watercolours — Plural form of watercolour.
  • watercourses — Plural form of watercourse.
  • watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • weather deck — (on a ship) the uppermost continuous deck exposed to the weather.
  • weathercasts — Plural form of weathercast.
  • weathercloth — a canvas cover for sheltering crew or protecting boat parts from the weather
  • weathercocks — Plural form of weathercock.
  • weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
  • wesley clark — (person)   One of the designers of the Laboratory Instrument Computer at MIT who subsequently had a quiet hand in many seminal computing events, such as the development of the Internet, the first really good description of the metastability problem in computer logic.
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • western cape — a province of W South Africa, created in 1994 from the SW part of Cape Province: agriculture (esp fruit), wine making, fishing, various industries in Cape Town. Capital: Cape Town. Pop: 5 822 734 (2011 est). Area: 129 370 sq km (49 950 sq miles)
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