15-letter words containing c, w, e
- common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
- commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
- compound flower — a flower head made up of many small flowers appearing as a single bloom, as in the daisy
- conestoga wagon — a large heavy horse-drawn covered wagon used in the 19th century
- confederate war — the American Civil War.
- conjoined twins — twin babies born joined together at some point, such as at the hips. Some have lived for many years without being surgically separated
- continuous wave — an electromagnetic wave, esp. a radio wave, with a constant amplitude and frequency
- contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
- contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
- corkscrew curls — locks of hair curled to hang in a spiral shape
- corkscrew grass — a variety of spear grass, Austrostipa scabra, native to Australia, having very fine foliage, an erect seed head, and awns that twist up the seed head: family Poaceae
- cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
- coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
- costume jewelry — Costume jewelry is jewelry made from cheap materials.
- counterweighted — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweight.
- country dweller — a person who lives in the country
- country western — country music
- cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
- crashworthiness — the ability of a vehicle structure to withstand a crash
- crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
- crescent wrench — a wrench with a head shaped like a crescent, having one movable jaw, adjusted by a screw to fit various sizes of nuts, bolts, etc.
- criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
- crisis software — A small UK company producing software for the Acorn Archimedes range of computers.
- cross-ownership — ownership of two or more similar or related businesses, as communications media, especially in the same locality: to forbid cross-ownership of newspapers and TV or radio stations in the same city.
- crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
- curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
- 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.
- downward closed — closure
- electric wiring — the wires which allow electricity to flow somewhere
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- every which way — Every which way and any which way are used to emphasize that something happens, or might happen, in a lot of different ways, or using a lot of different methods.
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- field chickweed — starry grasswort.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- graveyard watch — graveyard shift.
- have a whack at — to aim a blow at
- 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.
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- hewlett-packard — (HP) Hewlett-Packard designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computation and communications. The company's products and services are used in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education in approximately 110 countries. HP was founded in 1939 and employs 96600 people, 58900 in the USA. They have manufacturing and R&D establishments in 54 cities in 16 countries and approximately 600 sales and service offices in 110 countries. Their revenue (in 1992/1993?) was $20.3 billion. The Chief Executive Officer is Lewis E. Platt. HP's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific, Tokyo, London, Frankfurt, Zurich and Paris exchanges. Quarterly sales $6053M, profits $347M (Aug 1994).
- how come/how so — You ask 'How come?' or 'How so?' when you are surprised by something and are asking why it happened or was said.
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- identical twins — 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.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.