10-letter words containing c, w, o
- wheel lock — an old type of gunlock in which sparks are produced by the friction of a small steel wheel against a piece of iron pyrites.
- whipstocks — Plural form of whipstock.
- white coal — Informal. water, as of a stream, used for power.
- white coat — a white coat worn over everyday clothes by a doctor in a hospital or a scientist
- white rock — a city in SW British Columbia, in SW Canada, SE of Vancouver.
- whitecoats — Plural form of whitecoat.
- wholescale — Wholesale (extensive).
- wickerwork — material or products consisting of plaited or woven twigs or osiers; articles made of wicker.
- wikinomics — The theory and practice of mass collaboration using electronic communications.
- wind colic — flatulence caused by gases that result from the eating of fermenting vegetation; bloat.
- 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.
- wire cloth — a material of wires of moderate fineness, used for making strainers, manufacturing paper, etc.
- witch moth — any of several large noctuid moths of the genus Erebus, especially the blackish E. odora (black witch) of Central and North America.
- wolf-child — a child who is thought to have been suckled or nurtured by wolves.
- wood block — a block of wood engraved in relief, for printing from; woodcut.
- 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.
- wood screw — any of various screws that have a slotted head and a gimlet point that permit them to be driven into wood with a screwdriver.
- woodblocks — Plural form of woodblock.
- woodcarver — a person whose occupation is woodcarving.
- woodchucks — Plural form of woodchuck.
- woodcutter — a person who cuts down trees for firewood.
- woodpecker — any of numerous climbing birds of the family Picidae, having a hard, chisellike bill that it hammers repeatedly into wood in search of insects, stiff tail feathers to assist in climbing, and usually more or less boldly patterned plumage.
- woods colt — catch-colt (def 2).
- woodscrews — Plural form of woodscrew.
- woollyback — a person who lives in a region near, but not in, Liverpool
- woonsocket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- word class — a group of words all of which are members of the same form class or part of speech.
- wordsearch — a puzzle made up of letters arranged in a grid which contains a number of hidden words running in various directions
- work ethic — a belief in the moral benefit and importance of work and its inherent ability to strengthen character.
- work force — the total number of workers in a specific undertaking: a holiday for the company's work force.
- work space — area used for work
- workaholic — a person who works compulsively at the expense of other pursuits.
- workoholic — Misspelling of workaholic.
- workpieces — Plural form of workpiece.
- workplaces — Plural form of workplace.
- workspaces — Plural form of workspace.
- worldscale — the standard scale of freight rates for oil tankers
- worm fence — Chiefly Midland U.S. snake fence.
- worst case — of the worst possibility; being the worst result that could be expected under the circumstances: a worst-case scenario.
- worst-case — of the worst possibility; being the worst result that could be expected under the circumstances: a worst-case scenario.
- wow factor — quality of being able to astound
- wristlocks — Plural form of wristlock.
- yellowback — (formerly) an inexpensive, often lurid, novel bound in yellow cloth or paper.
- yellowcake — a processed oxide of uranium, U 3 O 8 , extracted and concentrated from uranium ore: used as the raw material for commercial nuclear materials, especially fuel elements in nuclear reactors.