13-letter words containing w, o, c, a
- congresswoman — A Congresswoman is a female member of the US Congress, especially of the House of Representatives.
- connate water — Connate water is water which is trapped in rock pores.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- contract work — the work specified in a short-term contract, esp as opposed to regular employment
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- cooper's hawk — a small North American hawk, Accipiter cooperii, having a bluish-grey back and wings and a reddish-brown breast
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- count towards — If something counts towards or counts toward an achievement or right, it is included as one of the things that give you the right to it.
- covered wagon — A covered wagon is a wagon that has an arched canvas roof and is pulled by horses. Covered wagons were used by the early American settlers as they travelled across the country.
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- crack of dawn — the very instant that the sun rises
- crow-pheasant — a large coucal, Centropus sinensis, of Asia, having black and brown plumage and a long tail.
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- cuckoo wrasse — a fish, Labrus mixtus
- cupid's arrow — one of the arrows that Cupid is supposed to fire from his bow, which cause the person struck to fall in love
- cut both ways — to have both good and bad effects
- cut-away coat — Also called cutaway coat. a man's formal daytime coat having the front portion of the skirt cut away from the waist so as to curve or slope to the tails at the back.
- cut-card work — silver leaf cut in shapes and soldered to a silver vessel.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- downhill race — a competitive event in which skiers are timed in a downhill run
- east rockaway — a town in SE New York.
- firewall code — 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage. Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves. 2. Any sanity check inserted to catch a can't happen error. Wise programmers often change code to fix a bug twice: once to fix the bug, and once to insert a firewall which would have arrested the bug before it did quite as much damage.
- flow cleavage — cleavage resulting from the parallel alignment of the mineral constituents of a rock when in a plastic condition.
- gabrilowitsch — Ossip [aw-syip] /ˈɔ syɪp/ (Show IPA), 1878–1936, Russian pianist and conductor, in America.
- googlewhacker — One who searches for googlewhacks.
- growth factor — any of various proteins that promote the growth, organization, and maintenance of cells and tissues.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hero sandwich — a large sandwich, usually consisting of a small loaf of bread or long roll cut in half lengthwise and containing a variety of ingredients, as meat, cheese, lettuce, and tomatoes.
- high-low-jack — all fours (def 2).
- lancet window — a high, narrow window terminating in a lancet arch.
- launch window — a precise time period during which a spacecraft can be launched from a particular site in order to achieve a desired mission, as a rendezvous with another spacecraft.
- law of effect — another name for Thorndike's law
- low churchman — a person who advocates or follows Low Church practices.
- lower chamber — lower house.
- lowerclassman — underclassman.
- lowerclassmen — underclassman.
- mackinaw boat — a flat-bottomed boat with sharp prow and square stern, propelled by oars and sometimes sails, formerly widely used on the upper Great Lakes.
- mackinaw coat — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- magnetic wood — wood containing fine particles of nickel-zinc ferrite which absorb microwave radio signals, used to line rooms where mobile phone use is undesirable
- meadow fescue — a European fescue, Festuca pratensis, of the grass family, grown for pasture in North America.
- melvin conway — (person) An early proto-hacker who wrote an assembler for the Burroughs 220 called SAVE and (probably) formulated Conway's Law.
- microwaveable — Alternative spelling of microwavable.
- morning watch — the watch from 4 a.m. until 8 a.m.
- narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
- new caledonia — an island in the S Pacific, about 800 miles (1290 km) E of Australia. 6224 sq. mi. (16,120 sq. km).
- newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.