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16-letter words containing w, c, t

  • subsistence wage — the lowest wage upon which a worker and his or her family can survive
  • swimming costume — A swimming costume is the same as a swimsuit.
  • the commonwealth — the government in England under the Cromwells and Parliament from 1649 to 1660
  • the swiss-french — people from French-speaking Switzerland
  • the two sicilies — a former kingdom of S Italy, consisting of the kingdoms of Sicily and Naples (1061–1860)
  • the welsh office — (formerly) a department of the British government with responsibility for Welsh policies. It was replaced by the Wales office in 1999.
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • the wheel blacks — the international wheelchair rugby football team of New Zealand
  • to come to blows — If two people or groups come to blows, they start fighting.
  • to cut both ways — If you say that something cuts both ways, you mean that it can have two opposite effects, or can have both good and bad effects.
  • tobacco hornworm — the larva of a hawk moth, Manduca sexta, having a hornlike structure at its posterior end and feeding on the leaves of tobacco and other plants of the nightshade family.
  • torricelli's law — the law that states that the speed of flow of a liquid from an orifice is equal to the speed that it would attain if falling freely a distance equal to the height of the free surface of the liquid above the orifice.
  • tower of silence — a circular stone platform, typically 30 feet (9.1 meter) in height, on which the Parsees of India leave their dead to be devoured by vultures.
  • twin-carburettor — (of an engine) having two carburettors
  • twin-lens camera — a camera having two separately mounted lenses coordinated to eliminate parallax errors or for making stereoscopic photographs.
  • two-percent milk — Two-percent milk is milk from which some of the cream has been removed.
  • two-pot screamer — a person easily influenced by alcohol
  • two-stroke cycle — See under two-cycle.
  • twofold purchase — a purchase using a double standing block and a double running block so as to give a mechanical advantage of four or five, neglecting friction, depending on whether the hauling is on the standing block or the running block.
  • walking distance — distance that can easily be walked
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • ward christensen — (person)   The inventor of XMODEM and of the BBS. Ward did physics in college and programmed mainframes for IBM. Ward and friend Randy Suess set up their BBS on first on 1978-02-16 in Chicago. It ran on an S-100 computer with 64k RAM and two single-sided 8" 250kB diskettes.
  • washington, d. c — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • washington, d.c. — Booker T(aliaferro) [boo k-er tol-uh-ver] /ˈbʊk ər ˈtɒl ə vər/ (Show IPA), 1856–1915, U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer.
  • watch one's step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
  • watch this space — Journalists write 'Watch this space' in order to indicate in an informal way that they will be giving more information about something in the future.
  • water chinquapin — an American lotus, Nelumbo lutea, having pale-yellow flowers and an edible seed.
  • waterless cooker — a tight-lidded kitchen utensil in which food can be cooked using only a small amount of water or only the juices emitted while cooking.
  • way of the cross — stations of the cross.
  • weak interaction — the interaction between elementary particles and the intermediate vector bosons that carry the weak force from one particle to another.
  • weather forecast — meteorological prediction
  • well conditioned — existing under or subject to conditions.
  • well-appreciated — to be grateful or thankful for: They appreciated his thoughtfulness.
  • well-articulated — made clear or distinct: articulated sounds.
  • well-compensated — to recompense for something: They gave him ten dollars to compensate him for his trouble.
  • well-conditioned — existing under or subject to conditions.
  • well-constructed — to build or form by putting together parts; frame; devise.
  • well-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • west valley city — city in NC Utah, near Salt Lake City: pop. 109,000
  • western sandwich — a sandwich with a western omelet for a filling.
  • whatchamacallits — Plural form of whatchamacallit.
  • when it comes to — with regard to
  • white blood cell — any of various nearly colorless cells of the immune system that circulate mainly in the blood and lymph and participate in reactions to invading microorganisms or foreign particles, comprising the B cells, T cells, macrophages, monocytes, and granulocytes.
  • white rhinoceros — an African rhinoceros, Diceros simus, having two horns on the nose
  • whited sepulcher — an evil person who feigns goodness; hypocrite. Matt. 23:27.
  • whited sepulchre — hypocrite
  • whole-tone scale — a scale progressing entirely by whole tones, as C, D, E, F♯, G♯, A♯, C.
  • wiener schnitzel — Viennese Cookery. a breaded veal cutlet, variously seasoned or garnished.
  • win the exchange — to win a rook in return for a bishop or knight
  • winchester rifle — a type of magazine rifle, first made in about 1866.
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