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13-letter words containing w, a, r

  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • blow an eprom — /bloh *n ee'prom/ (Or "blast", "burn") To program a read-only memory, e.g. for use with an embedded system. This term arose because the programming process for the Programmable Read-Only Memory (PROM) that preceded present-day Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory (EPROM) involved intentionally blowing tiny electrical fuses on the chip. The usage lives on (it's too vivid and expressive to discard) even though the write process on EPROMs is nondestructive.
  • bootlace worm — a nemertean worm, Lineus longissimus, that inhabits shingly shores and attains lengths of over 6 m (20 ft)
  • bottle-washer — a menial or factotum
  • bottled water — water sold in bottles
  • bottom drawer — a young woman's collection of clothes, linen, cutlery, etc, in anticipation of marriage
  • bow and arrow — a weapon consisting of a bow together with an arrow that may be fired from it
  • bowman's root — an eastern U.S. plant, Gillenia trifoliata, of the rose family, having terminal clusters of white flowers.
  • braillewriter — a machine, similar to a typewriter, for writing texts in Braille.
  • braking power — the ability of a braking system to cause a vehicle to come to a halt
  • brazilian wax — the process of removing all or almost all pubic and other hair in the pelvic area by applying hot wax.
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break it down — stop it
  • breaking news — news of events that have taken place very recently or are in the process of taking place
  • bridal shower — a party, held for a woman before her wedding, to which her friends bring gifts
  • bridal wreath — any of several N temperate rosaceous shrubs of the genus Spiraea, esp S. prunifolia, cultivated for their sprays of small white flowers
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • bronze whaler — a shark, Carcharhinus brachyurus, of southern Australian waters, having a bronze-coloured back
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown mustard — black mustard. See under mustard (def 2).
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • butcher's saw — a type of hacksaw used especially by butchers for cutting through meat and bones.
  • cable railway — a railway on which individual cars are drawn along by a strong cable or metal chain operated by a stationary motor
  • cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
  • calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
  • cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
  • cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
  • car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
  • caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
  • card walloper — (jargon)   An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
  • carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
  • carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
  • carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
  • casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
  • casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
  • cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
  • cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
  • cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
  • cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
  • charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
  • charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
  • charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
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