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13-letter words containing w, a

  • checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
  • child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
  • childrenswear — clothing for children
  • chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
  • chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.
  • churchwardens — Plural form of churchwarden.
  • clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
  • class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
  • class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
  • cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
  • climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
  • clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
  • clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
  • clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
  • club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
  • coast redwood — the redwood, Sequoia sempervirens.
  • cobalt yellow — aureolin.
  • cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
  • coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
  • come what may — to approach or move toward a particular person or place: Come here. Don't come any closer!
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • common mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
  • common sallow — a small Eurasian willow tree, Salix cinerea, which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
  • commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
  • companionways — Plural form of companionway.
  • company woman — a female employee whose allegiance to her employer comes before personal beliefs or loyalty to fellow workers.
  • congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
  • connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
  • constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
  • contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
  • conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
  • cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
  • count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
  • covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
  • cracked wheat — whole wheat cracked between rollers so that it will cook more quickly
  • creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
  • cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
  • cut-away coat — Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
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