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13-letter words containing c, w, o

  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
  • morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new economics — Keynesianism.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • on-off switch — electrical or electronic device: control knob
  • once and away — conclusively
  • once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
  • ottawa euclid — Euclid
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • school of law — (in Chinese philosophy) a Neo-Confucian school asserting the existence of transcendent universals, which form individual objects from a primal matter otherwise formless.
  • scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • shock and awe — US military: use of extreme force
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • slow handclap — slow rhythmic clapping, esp used by an audience to indicate dissatisfaction or impatience
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