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14-letter words containing c, w, a

  • charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • choctawhatchee — a river in SE Alabama and NW Florida, flowing S to Choctawhatchee Bay on the Gulf of Mexico. 174 miles (280 km) long.
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class 5 switch — (communications)   The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • commercial law — business law
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
  • descartes' law — Snell's law.
  • disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
  • down the hatch — drinks toast
  • downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
  • draw a picture — represent sth visually
  • draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
  • drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
  • drawing office — an office where drawings are made
  • dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
  • dwelling place — a dwelling.
  • east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
  • emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
  • enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
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