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15-letter words containing c, w, o

  • mad cow disease — BSE: bovine spongiform encephalopathy
  • make allowances — to take mitigating circumstances into account in consideration (of)
  • make sb welcome — If you make someone welcome or make them feel welcome, you make them feel happy and accepted in a new place.
  • moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
  • mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
  • napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
  • new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
  • new port richey — a town in central Florida.
  • new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
  • news conference — a press conference, especially one held by a government official.
  • newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
  • nightwatchwoman — (rare) The female equivalent of a nightwatchman.
  • noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
  • norwich terrier — one of an English breed of small, short-legged terriers having a straight, wiry, red, gray, or black-and-tan coat, and erect ears that distinguish it from the Norfolk terrier.
  • nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
  • oliver cromwell — Oliver, 1599–1658, English general, Puritan statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1653–58.
  • once in a while — at one time in the past; formerly: I was a farmer once; a once powerful nation.
  • one-two (punch) — a sequence of two quick punches, esp. a jab with the left hand followed at once by a hard blow with the right
  • outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
  • patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
  • peachblow glass — an American art glass made in various pale colors and sometimes having an underlayer of milk glass.
  • play havoc with — bring chaos to
  • power macintosh — Power Mac
  • power structure — the system of authority or influence in government, politics, education, etc.: The state elections threatened to upset the existing power structure.
  • precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
  • redwood seconds — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the time in seconds taken for fluid to flow through a standard orifice: accepted as standard in the UK in 1886
  • research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
  • research worker — investigative scientist
  • robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits
  • rockwell number — a numerical expression of the hardness of a metal as determined by a test (Rockwell test) made by indenting a test piece with a Brale, or with a steel ball of specific diameter, under two successive loads and measuring the resulting permanent indentation.
  • royal worcester — Worcester china made after 1862
  • sandwich course — A sandwich course is an educational course in which you have periods of study between periods of being at work.
  • scotch woodcock — toast spread with anchovy paste and topped with loosely scrambled eggs.
  • screw propeller — a rotary propelling device, as for a ship or airplane, consisting of a number of blades that radiate from a central hub and are so inclined to the plane of rotation as to tend to drive a helical path through the substance in which they rotate.
  • shockwave flash — flash
  • show one's face — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
  • silicified wood — wood that has been changed into quartz by a replacement of the cellular structure of the wood by siliceous waters.
  • snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
  • 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.
  • spotted cowbane — a North American water hemlock, Cicuta maculata, of the parsley family, having a purple-mottled stem, white flowers, and deadly poisonous, tuberlike roots.
  • 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
  • stone the crows — an expression of surprise, dismay, etc
  • sweet chocolate — cocoa product with high sugar content
  • 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.
  • talcum (powder) — a powder for the body and face made of powdered, purified talc, usually perfumed
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
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