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11-letter words containing w, o, r, c

  • pace bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • pieceworker — someone who does work paid for according to the quantity produced
  • police work — the everyday duties of police officers, esp the investigation of criminal activities
  • policyowner — policyholder.
  • power cable — cable for conducting electric power.
  • power chain — an endless chain for transmitting motion and power between sprockets on shafts with parallel axes.
  • power cycle — (hardware)   (Or "cycle power", "cycle") To turn a machine's power off and on, with the intention of clearing some kind of hung or gronked state. Synonym 120 reset; see also Big Red Switch. Compare Vulcan nerve pinch, bounce and boot, and see the AI Koan about Tom Knight and the novice.
  • power lunch — ability to do or act; capability of doing or accomplishing something.
  • powerpc 601 — (processor)   A 32-bit RISC processor with 2.8 million transistors (~1.2 million in the core logic) and 32 kilobytes of on-chip cache. Die size: 118.8 mm2. Heat dissipation at 66MHz: 9W. Performance at 66MHz: integer >60 SPECint92, floating-point >80 SPECfp92. Estimated manufacturing cost: $76. Maximum instructions per cycle: 3. 32 32-bit general-purpose registers. 32 64-bit floating-point registers. Successors: PowerPC 603, 604, 620.
  • reckon with — to count, compute, or calculate, as in number or amount.
  • review copy — a copy of a book sent by a publisher to a journal, newspaper, etc, to enable it to be reviewed
  • rock flower — any shrub of the genus Crossosoma, native to the arid regions of the southwestern U.S., having thick, narrow leaves and solitary flowers.
  • rowing club — rowboat association
  • schoolwards — in the direction of school
  • schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
  • scissorwise — in a movement or position which imitates scissors
  • screech owl — any of numerous small American owls of the genus Otus, having hornlike tufts of feathers, as O. asio, of eastern North America.
  • screw joint — a type of joint that is fastened by means of screws
  • slow cooker — an electric cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid for cooking meats, casseroles, etc., for several hours at relatively low temperatures, usually around 200° F (93.3° C).
  • social work — organized work directed toward the betterment of social conditions in the community, as by seeking to improve the condition of the poor, to promote the welfare of children, etc.
  • stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
  • storm watch — watch (def 20).
  • straw color — a pale yellow similar to the color of straw.
  • sweatercoat — a coat knitted like a bulky sweater.
  • switch over — If you switch over when you are watching television, you change to another channel.
  • switchboard — a structural unit on which are mounted switches and instruments necessary to complete telephone circuits manually.
  • sword dance — any of various dances, usually performed by men, in which swords are ceremonially flourished or are laid on the ground and danced around.
  • to eat crow — If someone eats crow, they admit that they have been wrong and apologize, especially in situations where this is humiliating or embarrassing for them.
  • tonic water — drink: carbonated water
  • tower block — a high-rise building.
  • tower crane — a rotatable cantilever jib on top of a steelwork tower used on building sites where the operator needs to command a good view of the site
  • town centre — the most important commercial or business area of a town, containing most of the shops, banks, restaurants etc
  • trickledown — of, relating to, or based on the trickle-down theory: the trickle-down benefits to the local community.
  • view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
  • wall rocket — any of several yellow-flowered European plants of the genus Diplotaxis, such as D. muralis, that grow on old walls and in waste places: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)
  • warm sector — the region of warmest air bounded by the cold and warm fronts of a cyclone.
  • watchtowers — Plural form of watchtower.
  • water clock — a device, as a clepsydra, for measuring time by the flow of water.
  • watercolors — Plural form of watercolor.
  • watercolour — A water-soluble pigment.
  • watercooler — Alternative spelling of water cooler.
  • watercourse — a stream of water, as a river or brook.
  • waterlocked — enclosed entirely, or almost entirely, by water: a waterlocked nation.
  • waterlocust — a thorny honeylocust (Gleditsia aquatica), native to the SE U.S., with a dark, heavy wood that takes a high polish
  • weathercoat — Also, weathercoating. a weatherproof coating, applied especially to the exterior of a building.
  • weathercock — a weather vane with the figure of a rooster on it.
  • welsh corgi — one of either of two Welsh breeds of dogs having short legs, erect ears, and a foxlike head. Compare Cardigan (def 2), Pembroke (def 3).
  • wheel cover — a fancy cover for the wheels of motor vehicles: larger than a hubcap
  • whenceforth — from which time or place forward
  • whichsoever — Whichever.
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