12-letter words containing w, c, a
- cotton waste — refuse cotton yarn, esp when used as a cleaning material
- councilwoman — A councilwoman is a woman who is a member of a local council.
- 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
- cutaway dive — a back dive in which the diver rotates the body to enter the water headfirst facing the springboard.
- 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.
- dawson creek — a town in W Canada, in NE British Columbia: SE terminus of the Alaska Highway. Pop: 10 754 (2001)
- deathwatches — Plural form of deathwatch.
- disallowance — to refuse to allow; reject; veto: to disallow a claim for compensation.
- dockwalloper — longshoreman
- doomwatching — the act of watching the environment to warn of and prevent harm
- downcastness — The quality of being downcast.
- draw curtain — a curtain, opening at the middle, that can be drawn to the sides of a stage.
- drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
- dwarf cherry — any of several low, North American cherries that grow on dry or sandy soil, especially Prunus pumila, of the Great Lakes region.
- dwarf cornel — the bunchberry.
- egg sandwich — two slices of bread filled with chopped egg
- entranceways — Plural form of entranceway.
- escape wheel — moving part of a timepiece
- face down/up — If someone or something is face down, their face or front points downwards. If they are face up, their face or front points upwards.
- factory work — work in a factory
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fire watcher — a person who watches for fires, esp those caused by aerial bombardment
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
- friction saw — a high-speed circular saw, usually toothless, that is used for cutting metals by using frictional heat to melt the material adjacent to it.
- hangchow bay — a bay of the East China Sea.
- harmonic law — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)