13-letter words containing w, e, r, c
- coconut water — the watery, drinkable liquid inside an immature coconut.
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- commuter town — a town that is home mainly to commuters
- concertgebouw — a concert hall in Amsterdam, inaugurated in 1888: the Concertgebouw Orchestra established in 1888, has been independent of the hall since World War II
- congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- congresswomen — Plural form of congresswoman.
- connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
- conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
- control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- 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.
- 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.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- 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.
- 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.
- flower-pecker — any of numerous small, arboreal, usually brightly colored oscine birds of the family Dicaeidae, of southeastern Asia and Australia.
- 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.
- insect powder — a powdered chemical that kills insects; insecticide