13-letter words containing c, w, o
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cut-away coat — Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- domestic fowl — a chicken.
- double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
- downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- flow function — The flow function is the relationship between the strength of a compact and the degree of compaction.
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
- french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
- how's tricks? — how are you?
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
- john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
- knock on wood — the hard, fibrous substance composing most of the stem and branches of a tree or shrub, and lying beneath the bark; the xylem.
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- locked bowels — constipation.
- lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
- low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- micro-brewery — A micro-brewery is a type of small brewery where beer is produced using traditional methods.
- microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.