13-letter words containing c, w, o
- slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
- social worker — sb who assists local community
- socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
- speckled wood — a common woodland brown satyrid butterfly, Pararge aegeria, marked with pale orange or yellowish-white spots
- stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
- sweep account — Finance. a checking account from which money in excess of a specified amount is automatically transferred to another account or to an investment that earns a higher rate of return.
- talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
- tallow candle — a candle made from tallow
- tax allowance — amount of income left untaxed
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
- throw a punch — try to hit sb
- toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
- torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
- tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
- twenty-second — next after the twenty-first; being the ordinal number for 22.
- twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
- vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
- w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
- wacky tobacky — marijuana.
- wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
- wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
- wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
- wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
- ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
- waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
- watch oneself — to be careful, cautious, or discreet
- watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
- water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
- watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
- waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
- wave function — a solution of a wave equation.
- waygoing crop — away-going crop.
- weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
- web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
- welcome wagon — a welcoming service that provides information about a community to new residents
- welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
- well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
- well-combined — made by combining; joined; united, as in a chemical compound.
- well-composed — calm; tranquil; serene: His composed face reassured the nervous passengers.
- well-conveyed — to carry, bring, or take from one place to another; transport; bear.
- well-schooled — having been trained or educated sufficiently, as in a school
- werecrocodile — (fiction) A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
- west bromwich — a city in West Midlands, in central England, near Birmingham.
- west columbia — a town in central South Carolina.
- western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
- whip scorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
- wholistically — Alternative form of holistically.
- widow's cruse — an inexhaustible supply of something: in allusion to the miracle of the cruse of oil in I Kings 17:10–16 and II Kings 4:1–7.