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13-letter words containing w, e, c

  • lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
  • law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
  • locked bowels — constipation.
  • lockwood home — a house built of timber planks that lock together without the use of nails
  • 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.
  • magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
  • master switch — a switch that can be used to turn on or off the supply of electricity to a building or to certain equipment
  • meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
  • medicine show — a traveling troupe, especially in the late 1800s, offering entertainment in order to attract customers for the patent medicines or purported cures proffered for sale.
  • melvin conway — (person)   An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
  • 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.
  • mid wicket on — mid on.
  • monkey wrench — spanner
  • monkey-wrench — to ruin (plans, a schedule, etc.) unavoidably or, sometimes, deliberately: The storm monkey-wrenched our plans for a picnic.
  • mooring screw — a broad, augerlike anchor used for securing buoys in soft-bottomed lakes, rivers, etc.
  • nervewracking — Alternative form of nerve-wracking.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
  • new brunswick — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
  • new criticism — (often initial capital letters) an approach to the critical study of literature that concentrates on textual explication and rejects historical and biographical study as irrelevant to an understanding of the total formal organization of a work.
  • new economics — Keynesianism.
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • news blackout — a situation in which a government or other authority imposes a ban on the publication of news on a particular subject
  • nez perce war — a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Percé Indians.
  • night crawler — an earthworm.
  • nightcrawlers — Plural form of nightcrawler.
  • nightwatchmen — Plural form of nightwatchman.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • nuclear waste — the radioactive by-products from the operation of a nuclear reactor or from the reprocessing of depleted nuclear fuel.
  • oak wax scale — any of various small oval-shaped homopterous insects of the family Asterolecaniidae, the female members of which have their bodies embedded in a waxy mass, as in the destructive Cerococcus quercus ((oak wax scale) or (oak scale)) or covered with a waxy film.
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • once and away — conclusively
  • once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
  • one-punch law — a law prescribing punitive sentences for assault, including assault comprising a single blow
  • one-two punch — Also called one-two punch. Boxing. a left-hand jab immediately followed by a right cross.
  • open sandwich — a sandwich served on only one slice of bread, without a covering slice.
  • optical wedge — a wedge-shaped filter whose transmittance decreases from one end to the other: used as an exposure control device in sensitometry.
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