16-letter words containing c, u, t, w
- australian crawl — a stroke in which the feet are kicked like paddles while the arms reach forward and pull back through the water
- buckwheat family — the plant family Polygonaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, vines, shrubs, and trees having stems with swollen joints, simple leaves, small, petalless flowers, and fruit in the form of an achene, and including the buckwheat, dock, knotweed, rhubarb, sea grape, and smartweed.
- century meltdown — Year 2000
- chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
- circuit switched — circuit switching
- community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
- computer network — network
- consumption weed — groundsel tree.
- continuous waves — radio waves generated as a continuous train of oscillations having a constant frequency and amplitude
- counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
- counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
- coursewriter iii — (language, education) A simple CAI language, developed around 1976.
- cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
- crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
- curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
- cut a wide swath — to make an ostentatious display or forceful impression
- cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
- cut down to size — to reduce the prestige or importance of
- drugstore cowboy — a young man who loafs around drugstores or on street corners.
- dutch new guinea — a former name of Irian Jaya.
- functional water — water containing additives that provide extra nutritional value
- get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
- giant's causeway — a large body of basalt, unusual in displaying perfect columnar jointing, exposed on a promontory on the northern coast of Northern Ireland.
- growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
- gun control laws — the laws that restrict the possession and use of guns
- kentucky warbler — a wood warbler, Oporornis formosus, of the U.S., olive-green above, yellow below, and marked with black on the face.
- kentucky windage — a method of correcting for windage, gravity, etc., by aiming a weapon to one side of the target instead of by adjusting the sights.
- luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
- multi-way branch — switch statement
- network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
- nuncupative will — a will made by the oral and unwritten declaration of the testator, valid only in special circumstances.
- one-way function — (cryptography, mathematics) A function which is easy to compute but whose inverse is very difficult to compute. Such functions have important applications in cryptography, specifically in public-key cryptography. See also: trapdoor function.
- pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
- quick with child — pregnant, esp being in an advanced state of pregnancy, when the movements of the fetus can be felt
- schweizerdeutsch — Schwyzertütsch.
- subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
- swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
- the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
- to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
- twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
- twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
- walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
- water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
- well-articulated — made clear or distinct: articulated sounds.
- well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
- well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
- whited sepulchre — hypocrite
- with due respect — with deserved esteem
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