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12-letter words containing w, a, r, c, i

  • periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
  • piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
  • pkware, inc. — (company, compression)   The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
  • plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
  • rack railway — cog railway.
  • reward claim — a claim granted to a miner who discovered gold in a new area
  • sandwich bar — a place where sandwiches are sold
  • scram switch — (jargon)   (From the nuclear power industry) An emergency power-off switch (see Big Red Switch), especially one positioned to be easily hit by evacuating personnel. In general, this is *not* something you frob lightly; these often initiate expensive events (such as Halon dumps) and are installed in a dinosaur pen for use in case of electrical fire or in case some luckless field servoid should put 120 volts across himself while Easter egging. SCRAM stands for Safety Control Rod Ax Man. In the early days of nuclear power, boron moderator rods were raised and lowered on ropes. In the event of a runaway chain reaction, a man with an axe would chop the rope and drop the rods into the nuclear pile to stop the reaction. See also molly-guard, TMRC.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • servicewoman — a woman who is a member of the armed forces of a country.
  • shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
  • sir lawrence — Sir Lawrence Alma-, Alma-Tadema, Sir Lawrence.
  • space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
  • static water — water collected and stored in reservoirs, tanks, etc., as for urban use.
  • switch grass — a North American grass, Panicum virgatum, having an open, branching inflorescence.
  • swivel chair — a chair whose seat turns around horizontally on a swivel.
  • twitch grass — couch grass.
  • wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
  • waistcoateer — a prostitute
  • walking race — a race in which competitors must walk
  • wallcovering — a flexible sheet of sized paper, fabric, plastic, etc., usually laminated and printed with a repeat pattern, for pasting on a wall as decoration and protection.
  • wardian case — a type of terrarium having a top and sides of glass.
  • warwickshire — a county in central England. 765 sq. mi. (1980 sq. km).
  • water coning — Water coning is when flow in a well changes as the oil-water interface forms into a bell shape.
  • watering can — a container for water, typically of metal or plastic and having a spout with a perforated nozzle, for watering or sprinkling plants, flowers, etc.
  • weaver finch — any of a number of Old World finches (family Ploceidae) that weave elaborate domed nests of sticks, grass, etc.
  • web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
  • weigh anchor — to raise a vessel's anchor or (of a vessel) to have its anchor raised in preparation for departure
  • west african — of or relating to West Africa
  • west warwick — a town in E Rhode Island, near Providence.
  • whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
  • white-collar — belonging or pertaining to the ranks of office and professional workers whose jobs generally do not involve manual labor or the wearing of a uniform or work clothes.
  • wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
  • willmar city — a city in SW Minnesota.
  • windcheaters — Plural form of windcheater.
  • wisecracking — a smart or facetious remark.
  • witch's mark — devil's mark.
  • within reach — close enough to be reached
  • wood carving — making sculptures from wood
  • woodcarvings — Plural form of woodcarving.
  • wrecking bar — pinch bar.
  • wrecking car — a car that is equipped as a wrecker. Compare wrecker (def 2).
  • wristwatches — Plural form of wristwatch.
  • writeacourse — (language)   A CAI language for IBM 360.
  • writing case — a portable folder with compartments for holding writing materials
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