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16-letter words containing w, e, r, c, o

  • geostrophic wind — a wind whose velocity and direction are mathematically defined by the balanced relationship of the pressure gradient force and the Coriolis force: conceived as blowing parallel to isobars.
  • get on your wick — If you say that someone or something gets on your wick, you mean that they annoy and irritate you.
  • green woodpecker — a woodpecker, Picus viridis, of Eurasia and northern Africa, having green plumage with a yellow rump and red on the top of the head.
  • growth substance — any substance, produced naturally by a plant or manufactured commercially, that, in very low concentrations, affects plant growth; a plant hormone
  • hairy woodpecker — a North American woodpecker, Picoides villosus, resembling but larger than the downy woodpecker.
  • hard-packed snow — snow which becomes very firmly packed as it becomes refrozen due to cold weather conditions rather than melting
  • hawthorne effect — a positive change in the performance of a group of persons taking part in an experiment or study due to their perception of being singled out for special consideration.
  • imperfect flower — a unisexual flower with only stamens or only pistils
  • lawson criterion — (in a hypothetical nuclear fusion reactor) the requirement that in order for the energy produced by fusion to exceed the energy expended in causing the fusion, the product of the density of the fuel and the time during which it is confined at that density (Lawson product) must be greater than a certain number that depends on the kind of fuel used.
  • lost-wax process — a process of investment casting in which a refractory mold is built up around a pattern of wax and then baked so as to melt and drain off the wax.
  • low-carbon steel — steel containing between 0.04 and 0.25 per cent carbon
  • lower california — Baja California.
  • luck of the draw — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
  • micrometer screw — a screw with a fine thread of definite pitch, such as that of a micrometer gauge
  • molecular weight — the average weight of a molecule of an element or compound measured in units once based on the weight of one hydrogen atom taken as the standard or on 1/16 (0.0625) the weight of an oxygen atom, but after 1961 based on 1/12 (0.083) the weight of the carbon-12 atom; the sum of the atomic weights of all the atoms in a molecule. Abbreviation: mol. wt.
  • network computer — a relatively inexpensive computer with minimal processing power, designed primarily to provide access to computer networks, as corporate intranets or the Internet. Abbreviation: NC.
  • newspaper office — an office where the editorial and production staff of a newspaper work
  • on a world scale — in a way that involves the whole world
  • optical tweezers — a laser device used to study, manipulate, or trap a microscopic object, as a microorganism or cell, with nanometer precision.
  • place of worship — religious house: church, temple
  • powerpc platform — (architecture, standard)   (PPCP, PReP - PowerPC Reference Platform, formerly CHRP - Common Hardware Reference Platform) An open system standard, designed by IBM, intended to ensure compatibility among PowerPC-based systems built by different companies. The PReP standard specifies the PCI bus, but will also support ISA, MicroChannel and PCMCIA. PReP-compliant systems will be able to run the Macintosh OS, OS/2, WorkplaceOS, AIX, Solaris, Taligent and Windows NT. IBM systems will (of course) be PReP-compliant. Apple's first PowerPC Macintoshes will not be compliant, but future ones may be.
  • projected window — a casement window in which the inner end of the sash slides along a track on the sill as the sash swings outward.
  • public ownership — ownership by the state; nationalization
  • purchasing power — Also called buying power. the ability to purchase goods and services.
  • pure watercolour — water-soluble pigment, applied in transparent washes and without the admixture of white pigment in the lighter tones
  • rainbow seaperch — an embiotocid fish, Hypsurus caryi, living off the Pacific coast of North America, having red, orange, and blue stripes on the body.
  • reprocessed wool — wool cloth respun and rewoven from the raveled fibers of unused cloth, such as the waste or clippings from a garment factory
  • rochelle powders — (not in technical use) Seidlitz powders.
  • second world war — World War II.
  • secondary growth — an increase in the thickness of the shoots and roots of a vascular plant as a result of the formation of new cells in the cambium.
  • shakedown cruise — extortion, as by blackmail or threats of violence.
  • show cause order — a court order issued to a party in a lawsuit, directing that party to appear to give reasons why a certain action should not be put into effect by the court.
  • showcase project — a project designed to attract attention and show off the abilities of the people involved in it
  • showy crab apple — a large Japanese bush or tree, Malus floribunda, of the rose family, having red fruit and rose-colored flowers that fade to white.
  • sir isaac newton — Sir Isaac, 1642–1727, English philosopher and mathematician: formulator of the law of gravitation.
  • software package — bundle of files to execute computer program
  • the west country — the southwest of England, esp Cornwall, Devon, and Somerset
  • 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
  • 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.
  • walrus moustache — a long thick moustache drooping at the ends
  • war of secession — American Civil War.
  • 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
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