15-letter words containing c, w, e, b
- acknowledgeable — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
- acknowledgeably — in a way that is able to be generally acknowledged or recognized
- aerial cableway — a transport system in which cars, buckets, etc run on cables.
- backup software — (tool, software) Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
- barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
- barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
- be carried away — to be moved to great or unreasoning emotion or enthusiasm
- biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
- big white chief — an important person, boss, or leader
- black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
- black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
- blow one's cool — (of the wind or air) to be in motion.
- blow one's cork — to lose one's temper; become enraged
- borrower's card — a card issued by a library to individuals or organizations entitling them or their representatives to borrow materials.
- bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
- breakdown cover — insurance cover against breakdowns in a vehicle
- cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
- chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
- chewing tobacco — tobacco, in the form of a plug, usually flavored, for chewing rather than smoking.
- chocolate brown — a dark brown
- climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
- coming bet ween — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- hebrew calendar — the lunisolar calendar used by Jews, as for determining religious holidays, that is reckoned from 3761 b.c. and was established by Hillel II in the 4th century a.d., the calendar year consisting of 353 days (defective year) 354 days (regular year) or 355 days (perfect year or abundant year) and containing 12 months: Tishri, Heshvan, Kislev, Tevet, Shevat, Adar, Nisan, Iyar, Sivan, Tammuz, Av, and Elul, with the 29-day intercalary month of Adar Sheni added after Adar seven times in every 19-year cycle in order to adjust the calendar to the solar cycle. The Jewish ecclesiastical year begins with Nisan and the civil year with Tishri.
- label switching — (networking) A routing technique that uses information from existing IP routing protocols to identify IP datagrams with labels and forwards them to a modified switch or router, which then uses the labels to switch the datagrams through the network. Label switching combines the best attributes of data link layer (layer two) switching (as in ATM and Frame Relay) with the best attributes of network layer (layer three) routing (as in IP). Prior to the formation of the MPLS Working Group in 1997, a number of vendors had announced and/or implemented proprietary label switching.
- make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
- mishnaic hebrew — the Hebrew language as used from about a.d. 70 to 500.
- neck sweetbread — sweetbread (def 2).
- new brunswicker — a native or inhabitant of New Brunswick
- peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
- reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
- robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
- rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
- snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
- spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
- the black watch — (formerly) the Royal Highland Regiment in the British Army; (since 2006) an infantry battalion of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
- the public weal — the public good; the good of society
- touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
- weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
- welsbach burner — a type of gaslight in which a mantle containing thorium and cerium compounds becomes incandescent when heated by a gas flame
- west palm beach — a city in SE Florida: winter resort.
- wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
- wring sb's neck — If you say that you will wring someone's neck or that you would like to wring their neck, you mean that you are very angry or irritated with them.
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