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13-letter words containing w, i, c

  • sandwich beam — flitch beam.
  • sandwich cake — a cake that is made up of two or more layers with a jam or other filling
  • sandwich coin — a coin having a layer of one metal between outside layers of another, as a quarter with a layer of copper between layers of silver.
  • sandwich loaf — a loaf of the type of soft white sliced bread often used to make sandwiches
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scale drawing — illustration made in proportion
  • schwärmerisch — excessively or extremely enthusiastic
  • scotch whisky — whiskey distilled in Scotland, especially from malted barley in a pot still.
  • screenwriting — writing film scripts
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • scriptwriting — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
  • seismic waves — a wave of energy that is generated by an earthquake or other earth vibration and that travels within the earth or along its surface.
  • sewing circle — a group, especially of women, meeting regularly to sew.
  • sewing cotton — cotton thread used for sewing, embroidery, etc.
  • shadowcasting — the enhancement of images by the casting of shadows
  • sidewalk café — a café that has seats outside on the sidewalk
  • simware, inc. — (company)   The producers of REXXWARE. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Address: Ottawa, Canada.
  • single wicket — a rare form of cricket in which only one wicket is used.
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • sticky wicket — Cricket. the area of ground around a wicket when it is tacky because of recent rain and therefore does not allow the ball to bounce well.
  • suicide watch — a system of regular checking on prisoners who seem likely to attempt suicide.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • swashbuckling — characteristic of or behaving in the manner of a swashbuckler.
  • swift current — a city in SW Saskatchewan, in S Canada.
  • swimming crab — any of numerous, chiefly marine crabs, especially of the family Portunidae, having the legs adapted for swimming.
  • switch engine — a locomotive for switching rolling stock in a yard.
  • switch-hitter — to be able to bat from either side of the plate, or both as a left-handed and as a right-handed batter.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • swizzle stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • swizzle-stick — a rod for stirring highballs and cocktails in the glass.
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • toggle switch — a switch in which a projecting knob or arm, moving through a small arc, causes the contacts to open or close an electric circuit suddenly, as commonly used in most homes.
  • trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
  • tweet-a-holic — a person who is addicted to the Twitter website
  • twin camshaft — A twin camshaft is an arrangement of two parallel camshafts for each set of cylinders in an engine. Usually one operates the intake valve and the other the exhaust valve.
  • twin-cylinder — (of an engine) having twin cylinders
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
  • wage increase — the amount by which a salary is increased
  • wages council — (formerly, in Britain) a statutory body empowered to fix minimum wages in an industry; abolished in 1994
  • walking stick — a stick held in the hand and used to help support oneself while walking.
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • wanted notice — a public announcement by the police that they want to question someone in connection with a crime that has been committed
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • wassily chair — a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.
  • watch meeting — a religious meeting or service on watch night, terminating on the arrival of the new year.
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
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