14-letter words containing i, w
- c with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
- cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
- capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
- capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
- captain's walk — widow's walk
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
- chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
- china wood oil — tung oil
- chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- circuit switch — circuit switching
- civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
- clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
- class 5 switch — (communications) The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
- cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
- climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
- clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
- coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
- code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
- commercial law — business law
- committeewoman — a female member of a committee
- committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
- communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
- compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- conjoined twin — Conjoined twins are twins who are born with their bodies joined.
- context switch — (operating system) When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cremnitz white — lead white.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
- crowning glory — the greatest achievement
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.