14-letter words containing c, w, e
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
- 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
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- get with child — to make pregnant
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
- hollow-cheeked — having sunken cheeks, as from thinness
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- humpback whale — a large whalebone whale of the genus Megaptera having long narrow flippers, and noted for its habit of arching deeply as it dives: once abundant in coastal waters, it is now rare but its numbers are increasing.
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jewel neckline — a plain, slightly rounded neckline without a collar, as on a dress or sweater
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- know the score — understand the situation
- lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- licensing laws — In Britain, the licensing laws are the laws which control the selling of alcoholic drinks.
- like clockwork — the mechanism of a clock.
- low technology — any technology utilizing equipment and production techniques that are relatively unsophisticated (opposed to high technology).
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- make allowance — to take circumstances, limitations, etc. into consideration
- master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
- medicine wheel — a Native American ceremonial tool representing a sacred circle
- medicine woman — (among North American Indians and some other aboriginal peoples) a woman believed to possess magical or supernatural powers; a female shaman.
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- meteoric water — ground water that has recently originated from the atmosphere
- microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.
- microwave oven — an electrically operated oven using high-frequency electromagnetic waves that penetrate food, causing its molecules to vibrate and generating heat within the food to cook it in a very short time.