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13-letter words containing w, c, r

  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
  • 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
  • customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
  • cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
  • dick size war — penis war
  • dimmer switch — A dimmer switch is an electrical switch which turns off the full beam of a headlamp and turns on the low beam.
  • dimmer-switch — a person or thing that dims.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • downconverter — A device that converts a signal to a lower frequency, especially in television reception.
  • downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
  • drilling crew — The drilling crew are the people who operate a drilling rig.
  • east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
  • 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.
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • french window — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • 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.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • 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-wire act — a circus trick in which the performer walks across a high wire
  • homework club — an after-school club where students can stay to do their homework
  • how's tricks? — how are you?
  • impact wrench — an electric or pneumatic power wrench with interchangeable toolhead attachments, used for installing and removing nuts, bolts, and screws.
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • 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.
  • low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
  • low countries — the lowland region of W Europe, on the North Sea: consists of Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands
  • low frequency — any frequency between 30 and 300 kilohertz. Abbreviation: LF.
  • lower chamber — lower house.
  • lower chinook — an extinct Chinookan language that was spoken by tribes on both banks of the Columbia River estuary.
  • 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.
  • magnetic wire — a fine wire made from a magnetizable metal and used for wire recording.
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • micro-brewery — A micro-brewery is a type of small brewery where beer is produced using traditional methods.
  • microswitches — Plural form of microswitch.
  • microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
  • mock whipbird — an Australian bird, Pachycephala rufiventris, which is not of the whipbird family
  • monkey wrench — spanner
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