13-letter words containing w
- cable tramway — tramway (def 4).
- calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
- camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
- canary yellow — Something that is canary yellow is a light yellow in colour.
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cape crawfish — an edible South African spiny lobster, Jasus lalandii.
- cape pondweed — an aquatic plant, Aponogeton distachyus, of the Cape of Good Hope, having floating leaves and tiny, fragrant white flowers.
- cape-farewell — Cape, a cape in S Greenland: most southerly point of Greenland.
- car allowance — an amount of money that an employer gives an employee who needs to use his or her car as part of his or job
- caraway seeds — the pungent aromatic one-seeded fruit of the caraway plant, used in cooking and in medicine
- card walloper — (jargon) An EDP programmer who grinds out batch programs that do things like print people's paychecks. Compare code grinder. See also punched card, eighty-column mind.
- carolina wren — a large wren, Thryothorus ludovicianus, of the U.S., having a musical call.
- carpenterworm — the larva of the carpenterworm moth.
- carpet-weaver — a person who weaves carpets
- carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
- cashew family — the plant family Anacardiaceae, typified by trees, shrubs, or vines having resinous and sometimes poisonous juice, alternate leaves, small flowers, and a nut or fleshy fruit, and including the cashew, mango, pistachio, poison ivy, and sumac.
- cassel yellow — a lemon-yellow color.
- casting wheel — a wheel having on its circumference molds for receiving molten metal.
- castle howard — a mansion near York in Yorkshire: designed in 1700 by Sir John Vanbrugh and Nicholas Hawksmoor; the grounds include the Temple of the Four Winds and a mausoleum
- casual worker — a person who has temporary, as opposed to permanent or regular, employment
- casualty ward — a ward which temporarily accommodates patients who have been treated in the casualty department and who need to stay in hospital
- cat's whisker — a pointed wire used to make contact with the crystal in a crystal radio receiver
- catch up with — When people catch up with someone who has done something wrong, they succeed in finding them in order to arrest or punish them.
- caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
- cavalry twill — a strong woollen twill fabric used for trousers, etc
- cayenne-whist — a seaport in and the capital of French Guiana.
- cd-read-write — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cd-rewritable — Compact Disc Rewritable
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- cedarwood oil — an aromatic oil obtained from the wood of the red cedar and used in the manufacture of soaps, perfumes, and insecticides.
- charles swart — Charles Robberts [rob-erts] /ˈrɒb ərts/ (Show IPA), 1894–1982, South African statesman: president 1961–67.
- charles's law — the statement that for a body of ideal gas at constant pressure the volume is directly proportional to the absolute temperature
- charlottetown — a port in SE Canada, capital of the province of Prince Edward Island. Pop: 34 562 (2011)
- checkweighman — a representative elected by coal miners to check the findings of the mine owner's weighman where miners are paid by the weight of coal mined.
- cheek by jowl — If you say that people or things are cheek by jowl with each other, you are indicating that they are very close to each other.
- chester white — a variety of large, white hog
- chew-'n'-spew — any fast-food restaurant considered to be serving poor quality food
- chewing louse — See under louse (def 2).
- child welfare — social work and services aimed at insuring the welfare of children
- childrenswear — clothing for children
- chilli powder — Chilli powder is a very hot-tasting powder made mainly from dried chillies. It is used in cooking.
- chime in with — If one thing chimes in with another thing or chimes with it, the two things are similar or consistent with each other.
- chimney sweep — A chimney sweep is a person whose job is to clean the soot out of chimneys.
- chimney swift — a North American swift, Chaetura pelagica, that nests in chimneys and similar hollows
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chinese white — white zinc oxide, formerly used in paints
- chowderheaded — like a chowderhead; foolish
- christ within — (in Quakerism) the light of Christ in the soul of every person, considered as a guiding force.
- chrome yellow — any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate
- chun doo hwan — born 1931, South Korean political leader: president 1980–88.