14-letter words containing r, w
- 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.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- 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.
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
- 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.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
- dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
- data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
- daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- detail drawing — a separate large-scale drawing of a small part or section of a building, machine, etc
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- dinnerware set — A dinnerware set is the same as a dinner service.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- disempowerment — to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
- do wonders for — to make a remarkable improvement in
- dogwood winter — a short period of cold weather in the spring.
- dover's powder — a powder containing ipecac and opium, used as an anodyne, diaphoretic, and antispasmodic.
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- down and dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down the drain — If you say that something is going down the drain, you mean that it is being destroyed or wasted.
- down-and-dirty — unscrupulous; nasty: a down-and-dirty election campaign.
- down-and-outer — without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- downing street — a street in W central London, England: cabinet office; residence of the prime minister.
- downregulating — Present participle of downregulate.
- downregulation — (genetics) The process, in the regulation of gene expression, in which the number, or activity of receptors decreases in order to decrease sensitivity.
- draw a bead on — a small, usually round object of glass, wood, stone, or the like with a hole through it, often strung with others of its kind in necklaces, rosaries, etc.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- draw-out table — draw table.
- draw-top table — a table that can be extended by sliding one or more additional leaves into place
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made