11-letter words containing c, r, e, w
- lower court — any court other than the highest court in a jurisdiction
- lower-class — of, relating to, or characteristic of the lower class: lower-class values.
- mexican war — the war between the U.S. and Mexico, 1846–48.
- microbrewed — Produced by microbrewing.
- microbrewer — The person or company that operates a microbrewery.
- microwriter — a small device with six keys for creating text that can be printed or displayed on a visual display unit
- mince words — speak tentatively, tactfully
- money cowry — a tropical marine gastropod, Cypraea moneta
- new country — a style of country music that emerged in the late 1980s characterized by a more contemporary sound and down-to-earth rather than sentimental lyrics
- newscasters — Plural form of newscaster.
- objectworks — An object-oriented development environment developed by ParcPlace, available under Smalltalk and C++.
- office work — work normally carried out in an office, for example clerical or administrative work for an organization
- olive crown — (esp in ancient Greece and Rome) a garland of olive leaves awarded as a token of victory
- overcrowded — filled to excess; packed.
- pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
- pipe wrench — a tool having two toothed jaws, one fixed and the other free to grip pipes and other tubular objects when the tool is turned in one direction only.
- plasticware — knives, forks, spoons, cups, etc., made of plastic: a picnic hamper with plasticware for six.
- police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
- policyowner — policyholder.
- power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
- power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
- power cycle — (hardware) (Or "cycle power", "cycle") To turn a machine's power off and on, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state. Synonym 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce and boot, and see the AI Koan about Tom Knight and the novice.
- power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
- powerpc 601 — (processor) A 32-bit RISC processor with 2.8 million transistors (~1.2 million in the core logic) and 32 kilobytes of on-chip cache. Die size: 118.8 mm2. Heat dissipation at 66MHz: 9W. Performance at 66MHz: integer >60 SPECint92, floating-point >80 SPECfp92. Estimated manufacturing cost: $76. Maximum instructions per cycle: 3. 32 32-bit general-purpose registers. 32 64-bit floating-point registers. Successors: PowerPC 603, 604, 620.
- racewalking — the activity of racing by walking fast rather than running
- reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
- review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
- rice weevil — a brown weevil, Sitophilus oryzae, that infests, breeds in, and feeds on stored grains, especially rice.
- rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
- sacred writ — Scripture.
- schwarmerei — excessive enthusiasm or sentimentality.
- schweinfurt — a city in N Bavaria, in S central Germany, on the Main River.
- scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
- screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
- screen wash — a fluid that is squirted onto a car windscreen to clean it
- screenwrite — (language) A columnar format third generation programming language similar in layout to assembler and used for transaction processing, solely on the Honeywell Bull TPS6 database/transaction management system on their Level 6 DPS6 minicomputers running under the GCOS6 operating system. In the UK it was mainly used by local authorities and the Ministry of Defense. Being proprietary technology, its popularity waned with the introduction of open systems standards, relational databases and fourth generation languages but it is believed that some systems made it through Y2K.
- screw auger — an auger having a helical outer surface suggesting a screw thread.
- screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
- screw plate — a metal plate having threaded holes, used for cutting screw threads by hand.
- screw press — a device for applying pressure by the turning of a threaded shaft.
- screwdriver — a hand tool for turning a screw, consisting of a handle attached to a long, narrow shank, usually of metal, which tapers and flattens out to a tip that fits into the slotted head of a screw.
- sheriffwick — shrievalty.
- shipwrecked — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- slack water — a period when a body of water is between tides.
- slow cooker — an electric cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid for cooking meats, casseroles, etc., for several hours at relatively low temperatures, usually around 200° F (93.3° C).
- spacewalker — a person who manoeuvres in space while outside but attached to a spacecraft
- stage screw — a large, tapered screw fitted with a handle, used to secure braces for scenery to the floor of a stage.
- stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
- sweatercoat — a coat knitted like a bulky sweater.