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13-letter words containing c, w, a

  • mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
  • mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
  • magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
  • morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nightwatchman — Someone who guards a premises at night.
  • nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • once and away — conclusively
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • packet switch — packet switching
  • periwig chair — a chair of c1700 having a high, caned back with an elaborately carved cresting.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • prawn cracker — a puffy savoury crisp made from rice flour and prawn flavouring, served with Chinese food
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • sawbuck table — a table that has X -shaped legs.
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
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