15-letter words containing w, o, r, c
- crown-of-thorns — a starfish, Acanthaster planci, that has a spiny test and feeds on living coral in coral reefs
- d. c. power lab — The former site of SAIL. This name was very funny because the obvious connection to electrical engineering was nonexistent - the lab was named after a Donald C. Power. Compare Marginal Hacks.
- downward closed — closure
- drawing account — an account used by a partner or employee for cash withdrawals.
- dwarf poinciana — royal poinciana.
- emotional wreck — a person who is feeling very sad, confused, or desperate because of something bad that has happened to them
- ewing's sarcoma — a form of malignant bone tumour most commonly found in children and young people
- ex-servicewoman — a woman who has served in the army, navy, or air force
- fall cankerworm — the striped, green caterpillar of any of several geometrid moths: a foliage pest of various fruit and shade trees, as Paleacrita vernata (spring cankerworm) and Alsophila pometaria (fall cankerworm)
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- flow of control — control flow
- flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- gila woodpecker — a dull-colored woodpecker, Melanerpes uropygialis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- helicopter view — an overview of a situation without any details
- hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
- kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
- law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
- legacy software — legacy system
- low archipelago — a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 332 sq. mi. (860 sq. km).
- low-cholesterol — containing little dietary cholesterol
- lower criticism — a form of Biblical criticism having as its purpose the reconstruction of the original texts of the books of the Bible.
- lzw compression — Lempel-Ziv Welch compression
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- mohawk hair cut — a member of a tribe of the most easterly of the Iroquois Five Nations, formerly resident along the Mohawk River, New York.
- napoleonic wars — French-led war in early 19th century
- new archaeology — a reorientation of archaeology, dating from the 1960s, that emphasizes an explicitly scientific, problem-oriented, deductive approach to research.
- new port richey — a town in central Florida.
- new york school — a loosely associated group of American and European artists and sculptors, especially abstract expressionist painters, active in and near New York City chiefly in the 1940s and 1950s.
- news conference — a press conference, especially one held by a government official.
- newton's cradle — an ornamental puzzle consisting of a frame in which five metal balls are suspended in such a way that when one is moved it sets all the others in motion in turn
- noncreditworthy — Not creditworthy.
- norwich terrier — one of an English breed of small, short-legged terriers having a straight, wiry, red, gray, or black-and-tan coat, and erect ears that distinguish it from the Norfolk terrier.
- nuclear-powered — powered by nuclear energy
- oliver cromwell — Oliver, 1599–1658, English general, Puritan statesman, and Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland 1653–58.
- outreach worker — a person who does work designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
- overcrowdedness — filled to excess; packed.
- patchwork quilt — cover sewn from patches of cloth
- power macintosh — Power Mac
- power structure — the system of authority or influence in government, politics, education, etc.: The state elections threatened to upset the existing power structure.
- precinct worker — a worker in a polling or electoral district (such as someone who mans voting, etc)
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- raw-pack method — cold pack (def 2).
- redwood seconds — a scale of measurement of viscosity based on the time in seconds taken for fluid to flow through a standard orifice: accepted as standard in the UK in 1886
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- research worker — investigative scientist
- robertson screw — a screw having a square hole in the head into which a screwdriver with a square point (Robertson screwdriver (trademark)) fits