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13-letter words containing c, r, e, w

  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • spruce sawfly — any of several sawflies of the family Diprionidae, especially Diprion hercyniae (European spruce sawfly) the larvae of which feed on the foliage of spruce.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swamp cypress — bald cypress.
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • war and peace — a novel (1862–69) by Leo Tolstoy.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • water lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
  • 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.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercaster — an announcer on a radio or television station who delivers the weathercast.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • wedding march — a musical composition played during a wedding procession.
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • welfare check — a social security payment
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
  • well-cultured — enlightened; refined.
  • well-directed — guided, regulated, or managed: a carefully directed program.
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