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12-letter words containing w, a, r

  • bird watcher — a person who identifies and observes birds in their natural habitat as a recreation.
  • bird-watcher — A bird-watcher is a person whose hobby is watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • biscuit ware — unglazed earthenware
  • black pewter — pewter composed of 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
  • black powder — gunpowder as used in sports involving modern muzzleloading firearms
  • bladder worm — an encysted saclike larva of the tapeworm. The main types are cysticercus, hydatid, and coenurus
  • bladderwrack — any of several seaweeds of the genera Fucus and Ascophyllum, esp F. vesiculosus, that grow in the intertidal regions of rocky shores and have branched brown fronds with air bladders
  • bottlewasher — a person or machine that washes bottles.
  • bowel cancer — cancer of the colon
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • branch water — water from a stream, as opposed to mineral or soda water
  • braunschweig — Brunswick
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • 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
  • brochureware — (jargon, business)   A planned, but non-existent, product, like vaporware but with the added implication that marketing is actively selling and promoting it (they've printed brochures). Brochureware is often deployed to con customers into not committing to a competing existing product. The term is now especially applicable to new websites, website revisions, and ancillary services such as customer support and product return. Owing to the explosion of database-driven, cookie-using dot-coms (of the sort that can now deduce that you are, in fact, a dog), the term is now also used to describe sites made up of static HTML pages that contain not much more than contact info and mission statements. The term suggests that the company is small, irrelevant to the web, local in scope, clueless, broke, just starting out, or some combination thereof. Many new companies without product, funding, or even staff, post brochureware with investor info and press releases to help publicise their ventures. As of December 1999, examples include pop.com and cdradio.com. Small-timers that really have no business on the web such as lawncare companies and divorce laywers inexplicably have brochureware made that stays unchanged for years.
  • broken arrow — a town in NE Oklahoma.
  • broken water — a patch of water whose surface is rippled or choppy, usually surrounded by relatively calm water.
  • brooks's law — (programming)   "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" - a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month". The myth in question has been most tersely expressed as "Programmer time is fungible" and Brooks established conclusively that it is not. Hackers have never forgotten his advice; too often, management still does. See also creationism, second-system effect, optimism.
  • brown bag it — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown bagger — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown canker — a fungous disease of roses, characterized by leaf and flower lesions, stem cankers surrounded by a reddish-purple border, and dieback.
  • brown hackle — an artificial fly having a peacock herl body, golden tag and tail, and brown hackle.
  • by-a-whisker — whiskers, a beard.
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • can of worms — a complicated problem
  • cape sparrow — a sparrow, Passer melanurus, very common in southern Africa: family Ploceidae
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • caraway seed — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of this plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • career woman — A career woman is a woman with a career who is interested in working and progressing in her job, rather than staying at home looking after the house and children.
  • carriageways — Plural form of carriageway.
  • carried away — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • carrier wave — a wave of fixed amplitude and frequency that is modulated in amplitude, frequency, or phase in order to carry a signal in radio transmission, etc
  • carrion crow — a common predatory and scavenging European crow, Corvus corone, similar to the rook but having a pure black bill
  • carriwitchet — a conundrum, nonsensical question, or pun
  • carry weight — to be important, influential, etc.
  • carryforward — carry-over.
  • cartwheeling — Present participle of cartwheel.
  • cassel brown — Vandyke brown.
  • caterwauling — the shrieking and yowling made by a cat, for example when it is on heat or fighting
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • cave dweller — a prehistoric person; person who lives in a cave
  • chair warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
  • chair-warmer — an officeholder, employee, or the like, who accomplishes little, especially a person who holds an interim position.
  • charity work — unpaid work, usually fundraising, done in aid of a charity
  • charles drew — Charles Richard, 1904–50, U.S. physician: developer of blood-bank technique.
  • charles' law — the principle that all gases expand equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant pressure: also that the pressures of all gases increase equally for the same rise of temperature if they are held at constant volume. The law is now known to be only true for ideal gases
  • cheese straw — a long thin cheese-flavoured strip of pastry
  • chew the rag — to converse idly; chat
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