14-letter words containing w, e, r, c
- abraham cowley — Abraham, 1618–67, English poet.
- across the way — If something is across the way, it is nearby on the opposite side of a road or area.
- allowance race — a race in which each horse is assigned a specified weight according to age, record of past performance, sex, etc.
- ambulance crew — the team of people who man an ambulance
- american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
- andrew jackson — Andrew ("Old Hickory") 1767–1845, U.S. general: 7th president of the U.S. 1829–37.
- andrew project — (project) A distributed system project for support of educational and research computing at Carnegie Mellon University, named after Andrew Carnegie, an American philanthropist who provided money to establish CMU. See also Andrew File System, Andrew Message System, Andrew Toolkit, class.
- atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
- atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
- award ceremony — ceremony at which an award is presented
- be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
- be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
- beach wormwood — a composite plant, Artemisia stellerana, having yellow flowers and deeply lobed leaves covered with dense white fuzz.
- big red switch — (jargon) (BRS) IBM jargon for the power switch on a computer, especially the "Emergency Pull" switch on an IBM mainframe or the power switch on an IBM PC where it really is large and red. "This [email protected]%$% bitty box is hung again; time to hit the Big Red Switch." It is alleged that the emergency pull switch on an IBM 360/91 actually fired a non-conducting bolt into the main power feed; the BRSes on more recent mainframes physically drop a block into place so that they can't be pushed back in. People get fired for pulling them, especially inappropriately (see also molly-guard). Compare power cycle, three-finger salute, 120 reset; see also scram switch.
- bow and scrape — to behave in an excessively deferential or obsequious way
- bowling crease — a line marked at the wicket, over which a bowler must not advance fully before delivering the ball
- braunschweiger — a smoked liver sausage, named after the city of Braunschweig
- brewster chair — a chair of 17th-century New England having heavy turned uprights with vertical turned spindles filling in the back, the space beneath the arms, and the spaces between the legs.
- brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.
- c power supply — a battery or other source of power for supplying a constant voltage bias to a control electrode of a vacuum tube.
- calendar watch — a watch that indicates date of the month, day of the week, etc., as well as the time.
- cardinal vowel — any one of eight primary, purportedly invariant, sustained vowel sounds that constitute a reference set for describing the vowel inventory of a language.
- carpet bowling — a form of bowls played indoors on a strip of carpet, at the centre of which lies an obstacle round which the bowl has to pass
- carpet sweeper — a pushable, long-handled implement for removing dirt, lint, etc., from rugs and carpets, consisting of a metal case enclosing one or more brushes that rotate.
- carpet-sweeper — a household device with a revolving brush for sweeping carpets
- carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
- case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
- cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
- center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- central powers — (before World War I) Germany, Italy, and Austria-Hungary after they were linked by the Triple Alliance in 1882
- centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
- charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
- charles wright — Charles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
- charles's wain — Big Dipper
- church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
- clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
- clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
- cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
- come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
- commercial law — business law
- common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
- coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
- counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
- counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
- counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
- covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
- cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
- crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
- crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
- cremnitz white — lead white.
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