14-letter words containing w, i, c
- conjoined twin — Conjoined twins are twins who are born with their bodies joined.
- context switch — (operating system) When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
- cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
- cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
- council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
- 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.
- 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.
- crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
- 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.
- crowning glory — the greatest achievement
- cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
- cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
- cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
- cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
- cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
- cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
- detective work — If you do some detective work, you do something to find out more about a subject or situation that puzzles you.
- disacknowledge — (transitive) To refuse to acknowledge or recognize something; to disavow or deny.
- discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
- downy cocktail — cationic cocktail
- draw a picture — represent sth visually
- 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
- dwelling place — a dwelling.
- east greenwich — a town in central Rhode Island.
- electrowinning — a means of extracting metal from ore using electrolysis
- eyebrow pencil — make-up for eyebrows
- fellow citizen — law: national of same country
- 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
- 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.
- get with child — to make pregnant
- glow discharge — the conduction of electricity in a low-pressure gas, producing a diffuse glow.
- googlewhacking — The action of searching for googlewhacks.
- greenwich time — the time as measured on the prime meridian running through Greenwich, England: used in England and as a standard of calculation elsewhere.
- 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
- identical twin — one of a pair of twins who develop from a single fertilized ovum and therefore have the same genotype, are of the same sex, and usually resemble each other closely.
- injection well — a deep well into which pressurized fluids are injected for waste disposal, to improve the recovery of petroleum, or in solution mining.
- itching powder — a powder that causes itching when applied to human skin. usually used as a practical joke on an unsuspecting victim
- jewel neckline — a plain, slightly rounded neckline without a collar, as on a dress or sweater
- keep pace with — to proceed at the same speed as
- kwangsi chuang — Guangxi Zhuang.
- lattice window — a window formed of an open framework of wood, metal, etc, arranged to form an ornamental pattern
- law of cosines — a law stating that the square of a side of a plane triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides minus twice the product of the other sides multiplied by the cosine of the angle between them.