10-letter words containing c, w, i
- white crab — ghost crab.
- white race — fair-skinned people
- white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
- white-face — a Hereford.
- whitecedar — (US) alternative spelling of white cedar.
- whitecoats — Plural form of whitecoat.
- whitespace — Alternative spelling of white space.
- whitterick — a weasel or stout
- wickedness — the quality or state of being wicked.
- wickerwork — material or products consisting of plaited or woven twigs or osiers; articles made of wicker.
- widescreen — of, noting, or pertaining to motion pictures projected on a screen having greater width than height, usually in a ratio of 1 to 2.5.
- wikinomics — The theory and practice of mass collaboration using electronic communications.
- wild calla — water arum.
- wild child — Journalists sometimes use wild child to refer to a teenage girl who enjoys herself in an uncontrolled way, for example by going to a lot of parties.
- wild pitch — a pitched ball that the catcher misses and could not be expected to catch, resulting in a base runner's or runners' advancing one or more bases or the batter's reaching first base safely.
- wild track — a soundtrack recorded other than with a synchronized picture, usually carrying sound effects, random dialogue, etc
- wildcarded — (computing) Replaced or supplemented with a wildcard character to allow matching against a range of possible values.
- wildcatted — Simple past tense and past participle of wildcat.
- wildcatter — an oil prospector.
- willywacks — willowwacks.
- winceyette — a plain-weave cotton fabric with slightly raised two-sided nap
- winchester — (in the Middle Ages) a kingdom, later an earldom, in S England. Capital: Winchester.
- wind chest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
- wind chill — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
- wind colic — flatulence caused by gases that result from the eating of fermenting vegetation; bloat.
- wind scale — a numerical scale, as the Beaufort scale, for designating relative wind intensities.
- wind-chill — the apparent temperature felt on the exposed human body owing to the combination of temperature and wind speed.
- windchimes — Plural form of windchime.
- windows ce — (operating system) /C E/ A version of the Microsoft Windows operating system that is being used in a variety of embedded products, from handheld PCs to specialised industrial controllers and consumer electronic devices. Programming for Windows CE is similar to programming for other Win32 platforms. Windows CE was developed to be a customisable operating system for embedded applications. Its kernel borrows much from other Microsoft 32-bit operating systems, while eliminating (or replacing) those operating system features that are not needed for typical Windows CE-based applications. For example, as on Windows NT, all applications running on Windows CE run in a fully preemptive multitasking environment, in fully protected memory spaces. The Win32 (API) for Windows CE is smaller than the Win32 API for the other 32-bit Windows operating systems. It includes approximately half the interface methods of the Windows NT version of the API. But the Win32 API for Windows CE also includes features found in no other Microsoft operating system. The notification API, for example, makes it possible to handle user or application notification events (such as timer events) at the operating-system level, rather than in a running application. The touch screen API and the built-in support for the Windows CE database are not found in other Windows operating systems. The touch screen API makes it easy to manage screen calibration and user interactions for touch-sensitive displays, while the database API provides access to a data storage facility.
- windscreen — windshield.
- windsucker — a horse afflicted with cribbing.
- windy city — Chicago, Ill. (used as a nickname).
- wing chair — a large upholstered chair having a back with wings.
- wingbacked — Having wingbacks.
- wire cloth — a material of wires of moderate fineness, used for making strainers, manufacturing paper, etc.
- wisecracks — Make a wisecrack.
- witch ball — a decorated blown glass ball.
- witch moth — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- witch-hunt — to subject to a witch hunt.
- witchcraft — the art or practices of a witch; sorcery; magic.
- witchgrass — Any of several grasses, of the genus Panicum, often found as a weed.
- witchweeds — Plural form of witchweed.
- with child — pregnant
- witticised — Simple past tense and past participle of witticise.
- witticisms — Plural form of witticism.
- wolf-child — a child who is thought to have been suckled or nurtured by wolves.
- wood melic — a pale green perennial grass, M. uniflora, that is common in woodlands and has branching flower heads
- wood pitch — the final product of the destructive distillation of wood.
- work ethic — a belief in the moral benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.
- workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.