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13-letter words containing w, e, c

  • corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
  • counter-power — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • counterweighs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of counterweigh.
  • counterweight — A counterweight is an action or proposal that is intended to balance or counter other actions or proposals.
  • 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.
  • cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
  • coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
  • 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.
  • crested swift — any of several birds of the family Hemiprocnidae, of southeast Asia and the East Indies, related to the true swifts but differing in having erectile crests and the habit of perching in trees.
  • crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
  • crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
  • crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
  • 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.
  • cruiserweight — A cruiserweight is another name for a light heavyweight.
  • cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
  • cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
  • customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
  • 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.
  • disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
  • dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
  • domestic fowl — a chicken.
  • double wicket — cricket in which two wickets are used, being the usual form of the game.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
  • fowling piece — a shotgun for shooting wildfowl.
  • 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.
  • get-well card — a greeting card sent to a person who is unwell, expressing a wish for a speedy recovery
  • googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
  • gut-wrenching — involving great distress or anguish; agonizing: a gut-wrenching decision.
  • 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
  • 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
  • insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide
  • irc penis war — penis war
  • john wycliffe — John, c1320–84, English theologian, religious reformer, and Biblical translator.
  • 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
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