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15-letter words containing c, w, i

  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • prince of walesPrince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • psychedelicware — /si:"k*-del"-ik-weir/ [UK] Synonym display hack. See also smoking clover.
  • quickwittedness — The state or condition of being quickwitted.
  • raw milk cheese — cheese or a cheese made with unpasteurized milk
  • reuben sandwich — a grilled sandwich of corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut on rye bread.
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • saskatchewanian — a native or inhabitant of Saskatchewan
  • silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
  • solenoid switch — A solenoid switch is an electrical switch that is often used where a high current circuit, such as a starter motor circuit, is brought into operation by a low current switch.
  • stacking swivel — a metal swivel attached to the stock of a military rifle for use in hooking three rifles together to form a stack.
  • stalactite work — (in Islamic architecture) intricate decorative corbeling in the form of brackets, squinches, and portions of pointed vaults.
  • stillson wrench — a large wrench having adjustable jaws that tighten as the pressure on the handle is increased
  • swiss army code — (programming, humour)   Code for an application that is suffering from feature creep. Swiss Army Code does many things, but does none of them well.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • the cesarewitch — a long-distance horserace run each year in October at Newmarket racecourse
  • the public weal — the public good; the good of society
  • the-night-watch — a painting (1642) by Rembrandt.
  • to carry weight — If a person or their opinion carries weight, they are respected and are able to influence people.
  • touch base with — the bottom support of anything; that on which a thing stands or rests: a metal base for the table.
  • town councillor — member of municipal government
  • twitching trail — a logging road sufficiently developed to allow the hauling of logs along it by horse or tractor.
  • vatican swindle — Lafcadio's Adventures.
  • w.h. richardsonHenry Handel (Henrietta Richardson Robertson) 1870–1946, Australian novelist.
  • walk-in traffic — The walk-in traffic of a store is the number of people who choose to visit it as they pass by.
  • walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
  • wallace nuttingWallace, 1861–1941, U.S. antiquary, author, and illustrator.
  • wallpaper music — music that is pleasant but not interesting, so people do not pay much attention to it
  • warrant officer — (in the U.S. Armed Forces) an officer of one of four grades ranking above enlisted personnel and below commissioned officers.
  • washing machine — an apparatus, especially a household appliance, for washing clothing, linens, etc.
  • watch committee — a local government committee composed of magistrates and representatives of the county borough council responsible for the efficiency of the local police force
  • weapons carrier — a light truck for transporting weapons or munitions in the field.
  • weimar republic — the German republic (1919–33), founded at Weimar.
  • welfare officer — a person who gives people help and advice
  • well-accredited — officially recognized as meeting the essential requirements, as of academic excellence: accredited schools.
  • well-acquainted — having personal knowledge as a result of study, experience, etc.; informed (usually followed by with): to be acquainted with law.
  • well-considered — thought about or decided upon with care: a considered opinion.
  • well-cultivated — prepared and used for raising crops; tilled: cultivated land.
  • well-man clinic — a clinic at which men's general health, lifestyle, and sexual performance are monitored and advice is given
  • well-recognized — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
  • wernicke's area — a portion of the left posterior temporal lobe of the brain, involved in the ability to understand words.
  • what's cooking? — what's happening?
  • whatchamacallit — an object or person whose name one does not know or cannot recall.
  • whatshumacallit — Alternative form of whatchamacallit.
  • wheelchair user — a person who is unable to walk through injury, illness, etc and relies on a wheelchair to move around
  • wheelchairbound — Confined to a wheelchair.
  • white cast iron — cast iron having most or all of its carbon in the form of cementite and exhibiting a silvery fracture.
  • white chocolate — a chocolate-type product made of milk and sugar that are cooked together until highly condensed and then mixed with cocoa butter.
  • white christmas — A white Christmas is a Christmas when it snows.
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