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15-letter words containing w, a, l, c

  • acknowledgeable — to admit to be real or true; recognize the existence, truth, or fact of: to acknowledge one's mistakes.
  • acknowledgeably — in a way that is able to be generally acknowledged or recognized
  • acknowledgement — An acknowledgement is a statement or action which recognizes that something exists or is true.
  • acknowledgments — a section of text containing an author’s statement acknowledging his or her use of the works of other authors and thanking the people who have helped him or her, usually printed at the front of a book
  • aerial cableway — a transport system in which cars, buckets, etc run on cables.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • association law — any law governing the association of ideas
  • barley sandwich — a drink of beer, esp at lunch time
  • barracks lawyer — a member of the armed forces who speaks or acts like an authority on military law, regulations, and the rights of service personnel.
  • biblical hebrew — the Hebrew language used in the Old Testament. Abbreviation: BiblHeb.
  • black and white — In a black and white photograph or film, everything is shown in black, white, and grey.
  • black-and-white — displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph.
  • blackwall hitch — a knot for hooking tackle to the end of a rope, holding fast when pulled but otherwise loose
  • bowel complaint — bowel disease or condition
  • caldecott award — an annual award in the U.S. for an outstanding illustrated juvenile book.
  • call forwarding — a telephone service that allows incoming calls to be transferred automatically to another number or extension
  • cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
  • cardinal vowels — a set of theoretical vowel sounds, based on the shape of the mouth needed to articulate them, that can be used to classify the vowel sounds of any speaker in any language
  • catharine wheel — Catherine wheel.
  • catherine wheel — A Catherine wheel is a firework in the shape of a circle which spins round and round.
  • cauliflower ear — permanent swelling and distortion of the external ear as the result of ruptures of the blood vessels: usually caused by blows received in boxing
  • cauliflowerette — a single floret from the head of a cauliflower.
  • cellar dwellers — the team at the bottom of a sports league
  • cetti's warbler — a reddish-brown Eurasian warbler, Cettia cetti, with a distinctive song
  • chandler wobble — a slight, irregular nutation of the earth's rotational axis with a period of c. 428 days
  • chimney swallow — another name for common swallow
  • chocolate brown — a dark brown
  • city of glasgow — a council area in W central Scotland. Pop: 593 000 (2010 est). Area: 175 sq km (68 sq miles)
  • clamp down (on) — to become more strict (with)
  • climb the walls — any of various permanent upright constructions having a length much greater than the thickness and presenting a continuous surface except where pierced by doors, windows, etc.: used for shelter, protection, or privacy, or to subdivide interior space, to support floors, roofs, or the like, to retain earth, to fence in an area, etc.
  • cloak-and-sword — (of a drama or work of fiction) dealing with characters who wear cloaks and swords; concerned with the customs and romance of the nobility in bygone times.
  • cold-water flat — (formerly) an apartment provided with only cold running water, often in a building with no central heating.
  • coldwater-river — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • common-law wife — a woman considered to be a man's wife after the couple have cohabited for several years
  • commutative law — a law asserting that the order in which certain logical operations are performed is indifferent.
  • contraclockwise — Counterclockwise.
  • contraflow lane — a traffic lane whose normal direction is reversed temporarily
  • coromandel work — lacquer work popular in England c1700 and marked by an incised design filled in with gold and color.
  • cowper's glands — two small yellowish glands near the prostate that secrete a mucous substance into the urethra during sexual stimulation in males
  • crawler tractor — a tractor with a continuous roller belt over cogged wheels on each side, for moving over rough or muddy ground
  • crawling horror — (jargon)   Ancient crufty hardware or software that is kept obstinately alive by forces beyond the control of the hackers at a site. Like dusty deck or gonkulator, but connotes that the thing described is not just an irritation but an active menace to health and sanity. "Mostly we code new stuff in C, but they pay us to maintain one big Fortran II application from nineteen-sixty-X that's a real crawling horror." Compare WOMBAT.
  • criminal lawyer — a lawyer who deals with criminal rather than civil cases
  • curie-weiss law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to the difference between its temperature and its Curie point
  • d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
  • downward closed — closure
  • emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
  • fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
  • fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
  • flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.

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