12-letter words containing w, p, c, i
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- chili powder — Chili powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chilies. It is used in cooking.
- chimneysweep — Alternative form of chimney sweep.
- chip away at — If you chip away at something such as an idea, a feeling, or a system, you gradually make it weaker or less likely to succeed by repeated efforts.
- chip jewelry — (jargon) A euphamism for old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decorative ornaments. "I paid three grand for that Mac SE, and now it's nothing but chip jewelry."
- co-ownership — the fact or state of being one of the joint owners of something
- come up with — If you come up with a plan or idea, you think of it and suggest it.
- companionway — A companionway is a staircase or ladder that leads from one deck to another on a ship.
- cop it sweet — to accept a penalty without complaint
- cop off with — If you cop off with someone, you meet them and start a sexual or romantic relationship with them.
- crawling peg — a method of stabilizing exchange rates, prices, etc, by maintaining a fixed level for a specified period or until the level has persisted at an upper or lower limit for a specified period and then permitting a predetermined incremental rise or fall
- crown prince — A Crown Prince is a prince who will be king of his country when the present king or queen dies.
- dow compiler — An early system on the Datatron 200 series.
- new politics — politics concerned more with grass-roots participation in the political process than with party loyalty or affiliation: identified especially with the candidacies of Senators Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern.
- periodic law — the law that the properties of the elements are periodic functions of their atomic numbers.
- phonetic law — a statement of some regular pattern of sound change in a specific language, as Grimm's law or Verner's law.
- pickerelweed — any American plant of the genus Pontederia, especially P. cordata, having spikes of blue flowers, common in shallow fresh water.
- picture show — motion picture.
- piercing saw — a small, fine-gauge saw blade with uniformly spaced, angled teeth, inserted in a jeweler's saw frame and used to cut precious metal and such soft materials as ivory and shell.
- pillow block — a cast-iron or steel block for supporting a journal or bearing.
- pkware, inc. — (company, compression) The company, founded by Phil Katz in 1986, which produces the PKZIP and PKUNZIP compression tools and libraries for many platforms. Address: 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave., Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204 USA
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic wrap — a very thin, transparent sheet of plastic, usually packaged in rolls and often having the ability to cling to other substances, used especially to wrap and store food and for microwave cooking.
- police power — the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good.
- provincetown — a town at the tip of Cape Cod, in SE Massachusetts: resort.
- provincewide — covering or available to the whole of a province
- public works — government-funded construction
- screen-wiper — windshield wiper.
- scriptwriter — a person who writes scripts, as for movies, radio, or television.
- shadow price — the calculated price of a good or service for which no market price exists
- space writer — a journalist or copywriter paid according to a space rate. Also called space man. Compare stringer (def 6).
- speechwriter — a person who writes speeches for others, usually for pay.
- swimming cap — A swimming cap is a rubber cap which you wear to keep your hair dry when you are swimming.
- switch plate — a plate, usually of metal, ceramic, or plastic, covering a switch so that the knob or toggle protrudes.
- tapioca snow — snow pellets.
- triple crown — an unofficial title held by a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and the Belmont Stakes in a single season.
- wackyparsing — (Internet, slang) present participle of wackyparse.
- wages policy — a government policy setting wages and wage increases for workers, for example, setting minimum wage requirements
- walking pace — the speed at which someone walks
- wapsipinicon — a river in E Iowa, flowing SE to the Mississippi River. 255 miles (410 km) long.
- web scraping — the extraction and copying of data from a website into a structured format using a computer program: Hackers pose a threat with techniques like web scraping. Our search engine uses web scraping to index sites.
- whelping ice — the ice on which a seal lies while giving birth in the spring.
- whip-cracker — a person who cracks a whip.
- whipscorpion — any of numerous arachnids of the order Uropygi, of tropical and warm temperate regions, resembling a scorpion but having an abdomen that ends in a slender, nonvenomous whip.
- whipstitched — Simple past tense and past participle of whipstitch.
- whipstitches — Plural form of whipstitch.
- white spruce — a spruce, Picea glauca, of northern North America, having bluish-green needles and silvery-brown bark.
- wicketkeeper — the player on the fielding side who stands immediately behind the wicket to stop balls that pass it.
- wild apricot — apricot (def 4).
- wild spinach — any of various plants of the genus Chenopodium, sometimes used in place of spinach.
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