13-letter words containing w, c, a
- 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.
- dick size war — penis war
- digital watch — a watch that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- finback whale — rorqual
- fire watching — the job of watching for fires, especially those caused by aerial bombardment
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
- girl-watching — the activity of looking at young women to enjoy their attractiveness, perhaps with a view to starting a relationship
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- hardwick hall — an Elizabethan mansion near Chesterfield in Derbyshire: built 1591–97 for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury (Bess of Hardwick)
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- high-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
- hunting watch — hunter (def 6).
- impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
- indecency law — the law relating to indecency
- irc penis war — penis war
- kerb-crawling — Kerb-crawling is the activity of driving slowly along the side of a road in order to find and hire a prostitute.
- kitchen waste — bits of food that are left over from cooking, such as vegetable peelings, cheese rind, and scraps from people's plates
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- machine screw — a threaded fastener, either used with a nut or driven into a tapped hole, usually having a diameter of about 1/4 inch (6.4 mm) or less and a slotted head for tightening by a screwdriver.