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12-letter words containing w, c

  • fencing wire — a heavy-gauge galvanized wire used for farm fences
  • 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.
  • flow control — (communications, protocol)   The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
  • flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
  • flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
  • flower child — (especially in the 1960s) a young person, especially a hippie, rejecting conventional society and advocating love, peace, and simple, idealistic values.
  • flowerpecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fowl cholera — a specific, acute, diarrheal disease of fowls, especially chickens, caused by a bacterium, Pasteurella multocida.
  • french twist — French roll.
  • 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.
  • growth curve — a curve on a graph in which a variable is plotted against time to illustrate the growth of the variable
  • gutwrenching — Alternative spelling of gut-wrenching.
  • 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)
  • henceforward — from now on; from this point forward.
  • high wycombe — a town in S central England, in S Buckinghamshire: furniture industry. Pop: 77 178 (2001)
  • highway code — In Britain, the Highway Code is an official book published by the Department of Transport, which contains the rules which tell people how to use public roads safely.
  • housewrecker — wrecker (def 4).
  • isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • jacket crown — a type of artificial, tooth-colored dental crown made of acrylic or porcelain
  • jim crow law — any state law discriminating against black persons.
  • kerb-crawler — a man who drives slowly looking to entice a prostitute into his car for sexual purposes
  • king's crown — a tropical American shrub, Justicia carnea, of the acanthus family, bearing clusters of tubular reddish flowers.
  • kirschwasser — a fragrant, colorless, unaged brandy distilled from a fermented mash of cherries, produced especially in Germany, Switzerland, and Alsace, France.
  • kitchenwares — Plural form of kitchenware.
  • knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
  • knocked down — hit and felled: by a vehicle, etc.
  • knocked-down — composed of parts or units that can be disassembled: knocked-down furniture.
  • knuckle down — a joint of a finger, especially one of the articulations of a metacarpal with a phalanx.
  • larch sawfly — a red and black sawfly, Pristiphora erichsonii, the larvae of which infest and feed on the leaves of larch.
  • law merchant — the principles and rules, drawn chiefly from custom, determining the rights and obligations of commercial transactions; commercial law.
  • lawrenceburg — a town in S Tennessee.
  • light switch — lever or knob for controlling a light
  • limit switch — a switch that automatically cuts off current to an electric motor when an object moved by it, as an elevator, has passed a given point.
  • lock forward — either of two players who make up the second line of the scrum and apply weight to the forwards in the front line
  • lower canada — former name of Quebec province 1791–1841.
  • lower school — a school that is preparatory to one on a more advanced level.
  • lower-income — earning less than average
  • lyric writer — someone who writes lyrics
  • machine word — word (def 10).
  • machine-word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • macroweather — Longer term average weather, covering period of length between that of weather and climate.
  • majolicaware — goods made from majolica
  • match-winner — a player who wins a sports match for his or her team, for example by scoring a goal
  • medical ward — a hospital ward in which patients are being treated by drugs rather than surgery
  • mexican wave — If a crowd of people do a Mexican wave, each person in the crowd stands up and puts their arms in the air after the person to one side of them, creating a continuous wave-like motion through the crowd.
  • microbrewery — a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
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