14-letter words containing w, e, r, c
- crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
- cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
- crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
- crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
- crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
- custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
- cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
- daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
- descartes' law — Snell's law.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- draw the crabs — to attract unwelcome attention
- drawing chisel — an obliquely edged wood chisel for working across grain, as in forming the ends of tenons.
- drawing office — an office where drawings are made
- dwarf chestnut — the edible nut of the chinquapin tree
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
- emergency ward — a ward in a hospital that deals with patients who need emergency treatment
- enclosure wall — a wall that encloses a piece of land
- escrow account — account held on sb else's behalf
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- factory worker — manufacturing labourer
- flower-de-luce — the iris flower or plant.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- follow-up care — care provided for a patient after medical or surgical treatment
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- free cash flow — Free cash flow is revenue of a business that is available to spend.
- french windows — a pair of casement windows extending to the floor and serving as portals, especially from a room to an outside porch or terrace.
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- hardware cloth — galvanized steel wire screen with a mesh usually between 0.25 and 0.5 inches (0.64 and 1.27 cm), used for coarse sieves, animal cages, and the like.
- hattie caraway — Hattie Ophelia Wyatt, 1878–1950, U.S. politician: first elected woman senator, from Arkansas, 1932.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- hebrew-aramaic — a mixture of Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic
- hero's welcome — a very enthusiastic reception from a group of people who show their admiration for something good that you have done
- honeycomb work — stalactite work.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- know the score — understand the situation
- lawrence frame — a gilded frame for a circular or oval painting, having a rectangular exterior form.
- lawson cypress — Port Orford cedar.
- like clockwork — the mechanism of a clock.
- lower michigan — the southern part of Michigan, S of the Strait of Mackinac.
- macaroni wheat — durum wheat.
- master aircrew — a warrant rank in the Royal Air Force, equal to but before a warrant officer
- mercury switch — an especially quiet switch that opens and closes an electric circuit by shifting a vial containing a pool of mercury so as to cover or uncover the contacts.
- meteoric water — ground water that has recently originated from the atmosphere
- microbreweries — Plural form of microbrewery.