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

  • narrowcasting — Present participle of narrowcast.
  • nervous wreck — sb anxious
  • new york city — Also called New York State. a state in the NE United States. 49,576 sq. mi. (128,400 sq. km). Capital: Albany. Abbreviation: NY (for use with zip code), N.Y.
  • newport beach — a city in SW California, SE of Los Angeles.
  • no-score draw — A no-score draw is the result of a football match in which neither team scores any goals.
  • norway spruce — a European spruce, Picea abies, having shiny, dark-green needles, grown as an ornamental.
  • nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
  • office worker — employee in an office
  • once or twice — If you have done something once or twice, you have done it a few times, but not very often.
  • optical crown — an optical glass of low dispersion and relatively low refractive index. It is used in the construction of lenses
  • outreach work — work (done by welfare workers, volunteers, etc) designed to help and encourage disadvantaged members of the community
  • overrun screw — A variety of fandango on core produced by a C program scribbling past the end of an array (C implementations typically have no checks for this error). This is relatively benign and easy to spot if the array is static; if it is auto, the result may be to smash the stack - often resulting in heisenbugs of the most diabolical subtlety. The term "overrun screw" is used especially of scribbles beyond the end of arrays allocated with malloc; this typically overwrites the allocation header for the next block in the arena, producing massive lossage within malloc and often a core dump on the next operation to use stdio or malloc itself. See spam, overrun; see also memory leak, memory smash, aliasing bug, precedence lossage, fandango on core, secondary damage.
  • piece of work — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
  • powder charge — propellant (def 2).
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • reach-me-down — a garment that is cheaply ready-made or second-hand
  • rescue worker — someone who works to bring people out of danger, attack, harm, etc, esp after a disaster, accident, etc
  • research work — work concerning research into or investigation into a subject, topic, etc, particularly in the sciences
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • screwworm fly — the adult screwworm.
  • scribble down — If you scribble down something, you write it quickly or roughly.
  • second growth — the plant growth that follows the destruction of virgin forest.
  • secret weapon — Someone's secret weapon is a thing or person which they believe will help them achieve something and which other people do not know about.
  • shower screen — a shower panel
  • slow puncture — a small hole in a tyre, from which the air escapes very slowly, so that at first it is not obvious that there is any problem with the tyre
  • social worker — sb who assists local community
  • socket wrench — a box wrench with a socket that is an extension of the shank.
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • torque wrench — a wrench having a dial or other indicator showing the amount of torque being applied.
  • twopenceworth — an unwanted or unsolicited idea or opinion
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • w3 consortium — World Wide Web Consortium
  • wall cupboard — a cupboard that is fixed to a wall
  • wallcoverings — Plural form of wallcovering.
  • ward of court — a person, esp a minor or one legally incapable of managing his own affairs, placed under the control or protection of a guardian or of a court
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
  • water hemlock — any of several poisonous plants belonging to the genus Cicuta, of the parsley family, as C. virosa of Europe, and C. maculata of North America, growing in swamps and marshy places.
  • watercolorist — a pigment for which water and not oil is used as the vehicle.
  • waterscorpion — any of several predaceous aquatic bugs of the family Nepidae, having clasping front legs and a long respiratory tube at the rear of the abdomen: capable of biting if handled.
  • waygoing crop — away-going crop.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • web directory — a database of selected websites, ordered in such a way as to facilitate browsing
  • welding torch — tool used to fuse metals
  • well-anchored — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
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