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12-letter words containing w, a, r

  • chowderheads — Plural form of chowderhead.
  • churchwarden — In the Anglican Church, a churchwarden is the person who has been chosen by a congregation to help the vicar of a parish with administration and other duties.
  • cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.
  • circular saw — A circular saw is a round metal disk with a sharp edge which is used for cutting wood and other materials.
  • clam chowder — chowder containing clams
  • cochairwoman — a woman who cochairs an organization
  • cock sparrow — a male sparrow
  • cold warrior — a person who engages in or promotes a cold war
  • come forward — If someone comes forward, they offer to do something or to give some information in response to a request for help.
  • 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
  • coomaraswamy — Ananda (Kentish). 1877–1947, Ceylonese art historian and interpreter of Indian culture to the West
  • core drawing — drawing of fine tubing using wire as a mandrel.
  • 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.
  • corn earworm — the larva of the noctuid moth Heliothis armigera, which feeds on maize and many other crop plants
  • cornishwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of Cornwall
  • 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.
  • cowardliness — lacking courage; contemptibly timid.
  • crack willow — a species of commonly grown willow, Salix fragilis, with branches that snap easily
  • craw-thumper — an ostentatiously pious person
  • crawler lane — a lane on an uphill section of a motorway reserved for slow vehicles
  • crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
  • criminal law — the body of law dealing with the constitution of offences and the punishment of offenders
  • 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 canopy — canopy (def 4).
  • 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.
  • crowned head — a monarch
  • crumble away — disintegrate
  • 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
  • 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.
  • cylinder saw — crown saw.
  • darning wool — wool used for darning
  • darwin tulip — a class of tulips having a tall stem and broad, bright-colored flowers with a flat, rectangular base.
  • dawn redwood — a deciduous conifer, Metasequoia glyptostroboides, native to China but planted in other regions as an ornamental tree: family Taxodiaceae. Until the 1940s it was known only as a fossil
  • dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
  • deepwaterman — a ship that goes far out to sea and into deep water
  • delaware bay — an inlet of the Atlantic at the mouth of the Delaware river
  • derwentwater — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Area: about 8 sq km (3 sq miles)
  • dewar vessel — a container with an evacuated space between two walls that are highly reflective, capable of maintaining its contents at a near-constant temperature over relatively long periods of time; thermos.
  • dockwalloper — longshoreman
  • donationware — (Internet) A variant of freeware that offers an option to its user to donate money to the program's author.
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