16-letter words containing w, r

cerulean warbler — a North American wood warbler, Dendroica cerulea, the male of which is blue above and white below.
chatsworth house — a mansion near Bakewell in Derbyshire: seat of the Dukes of Devonshire; built (1687–1707) in the classical style
chemical warfare — warfare in which chemicals other than explosives are used as weapons, esp warfare using asphyxiating or nerve gases, poisons, defoliants, etc
chest of drawers — A chest of drawers is a low, flat piece of furniture with drawers in which you keep clothes and other things.
chew the scenery — to overact, as in a play or film
childcare worker — someone who takes care of children in return for money
chinese whispers — a game in which a message is passed on, in a whisper, by each of a number of people, so that the final version of the message is often radically changed from the original
chinese wisteria — a high-climbing Chinese vine, Wisteria sinensis, of the legume family, having hanging clusters of fragrant, bluish-violet flowers and long, velvety pods.
chipping sparrow — a common North American sparrow, Spizella passerina, having brown-and-grey plumage and a white eye stripe
circuit switched — circuit switching
community worker — someone who works for the benefit of a community, esp for a social service agency
comparable worth — the doctrine that a woman's and man's pay should be equal when their work requires equal training, skills, and responsibilities.
compression wave — a shock wave that compresses the medium through which it is transmitted.
computer network — network
conservation law — any law stating that some quantity or property remains constant during and after an interaction or process, as conservation of charge or conservation of linear momentum.
conservative jew — a Jew who adheres for the most part to the principles and practices of traditional Judaism with the reservation that, taking into account contemporary conditions, certain modifications or rejections are permissible.
corkscrew flower — snailflower.
corporate lawyer — a lawyer who works for a corporation
counselor-at-law — a lawyer, esp one who conducts cases in court; attorney
counterclockwise — If something is moving counterclockwise, it is moving in the opposite direction to the direction in which the hands of a clock move.
coursewriter iii — (language, education) A simple CAI language, developed around 1976.
cowichan sweater — a heavy sweater of grey, unbleached wool with distinctive designs that were originally black-and-white but are now sometimes coloured: knitted originally by Cowichan Indians in British Columbia
creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
creditworthiness — having a satisfactory credit rating.
cromwell current — an equatorial Pacific current, flowing eastward from the Hawaiian Islands to the Galápagos Islands
crossbow archery — the sport of shooting with a crossbow
crossword puzzle — a puzzle in which the solver deduces words suggested by numbered clues and writes them into corresponding boxes in a grid to form a vertical and horizontal pattern
crowd one's luck — to take unnecessary risks in an already favorable situation
crown and anchor — a game played with dice marked with crowns and anchors
crown prosecutor — In Britain, a crown prosecutor is a lawyer who works for the state and who prosecutes people who are accused of crimes.
curlew sandpiper — a common Eurasian sandpiper, Calidris ferruginea, having a brick-red breeding plumage and a greyish winter plumage
curtain-twitcher — a person who likes to watch unobserved what other people are doing
cut and blow-dry — a hairdressing procedure in which the customer's hair is cut and blow-dried
dabrowa gornicza — an industrial city in S Poland.
darwin's finches — the finches of the subfamily Geospizinae of the Galapagos Islands, showing great variation in bill structure and feeding habits: provided Darwin with evidence to support his theory of evolution
darwinian theory — Darwin's theory of evolution, which holds that all species of plants and animals developed from earlier forms by hereditary transmission of slight variations in successive generations, and that natural selection determines which forms will survive
data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
de broglie waves — the set of waves that represent the behaviour of an elementary particle, or some atoms and molecules, under certain conditions. The de Broglie wavelength, λ, is given by λ = h/mv, where h is the Planck constant, m the mass, and v the velocity of the particle
de morgan's laws — (in formal logic and set theory) the principles that conjunction and disjunction, or union and intersection, are dual. Thus the negation of P & Q is equivalent to not-P or not-Q
declare war (on) — to make a formal declaration of being at war (with)
developing world — Third World: poor countries
dew-point spread — the degrees of difference between the air temperature and the dew point
dispersive power — a measure of the ability of a substance to disperse light, equal to the quotient of the difference in refractive indices of the substance for two representative wavelengths divided by the difference of the refractive index for an intermediate wavelength and 1.
distributive law — a theorem asserting that one operator can validly be distributed over another
down memory lane — If you say that someone is taking a walk or trip down memory lane, you mean that they are talking, writing, or thinking about something that happened to them a long time ago.
down to the wire — a slender, stringlike piece or filament of relatively rigid or flexible metal, usually circular in section, manufactured in a great variety of diameters and metals depending on its application.
downy woodpecker — a small, North American woodpecker, Picoides pubescens, having black and white plumage.
draw and quarter — to disembowel and dismember (a person) after hanging
draw the longbow — to exaggerate in telling something
dree one's weird — to endure one's fate

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