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14-letter words containing w, i, c

  • aircraftswoman — a woman holding a noncommissioned rank in the RAF.
  • american twist — a service in which the ball is spun so as to bounce high and to the left of the receiver.
  • ancient wisdom — pre-Christian knowledge, philosophy, and beliefs
  • atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
  • atomic-powered — powered by atomic energy
  • avalanche wind — the wind that is created in front of an avalanche.
  • balance weight — a weight used in machines to counterbalance a part, as of a crankshaft
  • ballistic wind — a single wind vector that would have the same net effect on the trajectory of a projectile as the varying winds encountered in flight.
  • be cursed with — to be afflicted with; suffer from
  • be struck with — to be attracted to or impressed by
  • 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.
  • black bindweed — a twining polygonaceous European plant, Polygonum convolvulus, with heart-shaped leaves and triangular black seed pods
  • 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  • brunswick stew — a stew originally made with squirrel and onions, and now usually with rabbit or chicken and corn, okra, onions, tomatoes, lima beans, etc.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 with classes — Short-lived predecessor to C++.
  • cadmium yellow — a very vivid yellow containing cadmium sulphide
  • capacity crowd — a situation when the maximum number of people possible are watching an event such as a sports game or pop concert
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • captain's walk — widow's walk
  • 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
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • cat's whiskers — Radio. a stiff wire forming one contact in a crystal detector and used for probing the crystal.
  • charles darwin — Charles (Robert) 1809–82, English naturalist and author.
  • charles wrightCharles, born 1935, U.S. poet.
  • charles's wain — Big Dipper
  • chicago window — a composite window, horizontal in character, consisting of a large, fixed sheet of glass between two vertical windows with sash for ventilation, first popularized in commercial buildings in Chicago in the 1880s and 1890s.
  • chicken switch — a device by which an astronaut may eject the capsule in which he or she rides in the event that a rocket malfunctions.
  • china wood oil — tung oil
  • chippewa falls — a city in W Wisconsin.
  • church wedding — a wedding ceremony performed in a church and having a religious rather than civil content
  • circuit switch — circuit switching
  • civil twilight — the period of time during which the sun is 6° below the horizon
  • clapperclawing — Present participle of clapperclaw.
  • class 5 switch — (communications)   The lowest designation used in AT&T's hierarchical General Toll Switching Plan, developed in 1929.
  • cleaning woman — A cleaning woman is the same as a cleaning lady.
  • climb the wall — If you say that you are climbing the walls, you are emphasizing that you feel very frustrated, nervous, or anxious.
  • clock-watching — the act of checking the time in anticipation of a break or the end of the working day
  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
  • commercial law — business law
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • 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)

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