12-letter words containing t, w, a
- branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
- breakweather — any makeshift shelter.
- breast wheel — a waterwheel onto which the propelling water is fed at the height of a horizontal axle.
- british warm — an army officer's short thick overcoat
- broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
- brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
- cabinet wine — cabinet (def 10).
- cabinet-wine — a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc., for holding or displaying items: a curio cabinet; a file cabinet.
- call waiting — Call waiting is a telephone service that sends you a signal if another call arrives while you are already on the phone.
- carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
- carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
- cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
- caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
- cathode glow — a luminous region between the Aston dark space and the Crookes dark space in a vacuum tube, occurring when the pressure is low.
- charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
- chateau wine — a wine produced from any of certain vineyards in the Bordeaux region of France
- cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- claw hatchet — a hatchet with a claw at one end of its head for extracting nails
- claw setting — a jewellery setting with clawlike prongs
- commonwealth — The Commonwealth is an organization consisting of the United Kingdom and most of the countries that were previously under its rule.
- company town — a town built by a company for its employees
- computer law — a body of law arising out of the special conditions relating to the use of computers, as in computer crime or software copyright.
- contract law — the branch of law that deals with contracts
- contrariwise — from a contrasting point of view; on the other hand
- core gateway — Historically, one of a set of gateways (routers) operated by the Internet Network Operations Center at Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN). The core gateway system formed a central part of Internet routing in that all groups must advertise paths to their networks from a core gateway.
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- counterwoman — A woman who serves at a counter.
- countrywoman — A countrywoman is a woman who lives in the country rather than in a city or a town.
- court of law — When you refer to a court of law, you are referring to a legal court, especially when talking about the evidence that might be given in a trial.
- craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
- croquet lawn — a lawn where croquet is played
- crosscut saw — a saw for cutting timber across the grain
- crown antler — the topmost prong of a stag's antler.
- crown estate — the property owned by the British Crown; state-owned property
- crown octavo — a size of book, about 5 × 7½ inches (13 × 19 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 8vo.
- crown quarto — a size of book, about 7½ × 10 inches (19 × 25 cm), untrimmed. Abbreviation: crown 4to.
- csk software — (company) An international software company formed by the merger of Quay Financial Software and Micrognosis, and fully owned by CSK Corporation, Japan. CSK Software is based in Frankfurt/Main (Germany) with offices in London (UK), Zurich (Switzerland), Madrid (Spain), and Singapore. Products segments are RDD: Real-time data delivery, main product is Slingshot for delivering real-time data over the Internet (real push technology). ETS: Electronic Trading Systems, price calculation and automatic trading (with connections to XONTRO and XETRA). EAI: Enterprise Application Integration, main product is XGen, a universal message converter with GUI and connections also to SWIFT. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: CSK Software AG, Opernplatz 2, D-60313 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49 (69) 509 520. Fax: +49 (69) 5095 2333.
- curtain wall — a non-load-bearing external wall attached to a framed structure, often one that is prefabricated
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- cutwork lace — point coupé (def 2).
- cutwork-lace — Also called cutwork. a process for producing lace in which predetermined threads in the ground material are cut and removed in order to provide open areas for the insertion of ornamental patterns.
- dalton's law — the principle that the pressure exerted by a mixture of gases in a fixed volume is equal to the sum of the pressures that each gas would exert if it occupied the whole volume
- darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
- delta-winged — (of an aircraft) having a triangular sweptback wing
- derwentwater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Area: about 8 sq km (3 sq miles)