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14-letter words containing w

  • coasting wagon — a toy wagon for children, often used for coasting down hills.
  • code-switching — Linguistics. the alternating or mixed use of two or more languages, especially within the same discourse: My grandma’s code-switching when we cook together reminds me of my family's origins. Bilingual students are discouraged from code-switching during class.
  • cogswell chair — an armchair having a fixed, sloping back, open sides, and cabriole legs.
  • come down with — If you come down with an illness, you get it.
  • come off worst — to enjoy the least benefit from an issue or be defeated in it
  • come one's way — manner, mode, or fashion: a new way of looking at a matter; to reply in a polite way.
  • commercial law — business law
  • committeewoman — a female member of a committee
  • committeewomen — Plural form of committeewoman.
  • common ragweed — a plant, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, of a chiefly North American genus: family Asteraceae (composites). Its green tassel-like flowers produce large amounts of pollen, which causes hay fever
  • common swallow — Hirundo rustica, a passerine songbird of the family Hirundinidae, having long pointed wings, a forked tail, short legs, and a rapid flight
  • communion wine — the wine used in the communion service
  • compass window — a bay window having a semicircular shape
  • compound-wound — noting an electric device in which part of the field circuit is in parallel with the armature circuit and part is in series with it.
  • coniston water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria: scene of the establishment of world water speed records by Sir Malcolm Campbell (1939) and his son Donald Campbell (1959). Length: 8 km (5 miles)
  • conjoined twin — Conjoined twins are twins who are born with their bodies joined.
  • context switch — (operating system)   When a multitasking operating system stops running one process and starts running another. Many operating systems implement concurrency by maintaining separate environments or "contexts" for each process. The amount of separation between processes, and the amount of information in a context, depends on the operating system but generally the OS should prevent processes interfering with each other, e.g. by modifying each other's memory. A context switch can be as simple as changing the value of the program counter and stack pointer or it might involve resetting the MMU to make a different set of memory pages available. In order to present the user with an impression of parallism, and to allow processes to respond quickly to external events, many systems will context switch tens or hundreds of times per second.
  • cotswold hills — range of hills in SW central England, mostly in Gloucestershire
  • cottage window — a double-hung window with an upper sash smaller than the lower.
  • council of war — A council of war is a meeting that is held in order to decide how a particular threat or emergency should be dealt with.
  • counter-worker — work or action to oppose some other work or action.
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • covering power — the maximum area of a scene that can be recorded with good definition by a particular lens.
  • cowper's gland — either of two small glands with ducts opening into the male urethra: during sexual excitement they secrete a mucous substance
  • crack the whip — to assert one's authority, esp to put people under pressure to work harder
  • crawfordsville — a city in W central Indiana.
  • cremnitz white — lead white.
  • crenshaw melon — a variety of melon resembling the casaba, having pinkish flesh.
  • cross software — Software developed on one kind of computer for use on another (usually because the other computer does not have itself adequate facilities for software development).
  • crow blackbird — any of several North American grackles, especially purple grackles of the genus Quiscalus.
  • crown attorney — a lawyer who acts for the Crown, esp as prosecutor in a criminal court
  • crown imperial — a liliaceous garden plant, Fritillaria imperialis, with a cluster of leaves and orange bell-shaped flowers at the top of the stem
  • crown princess — A Crown Princess is a princess who is the wife of a Crown Prince, or will be queen of her country when the present king or queen dies.
  • crowning glory — the greatest achievement
  • cruiserweights — Plural form of cruiserweight.
  • crummock water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • crystal growth — Crystal growth is the process of making a crystal grow by continuing to remove a component from a solution.
  • cuban sandwich — a hero sandwich, especially with ham, pork, cheese, and pickles, often grilled.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • cult following — the admiration that is felt by a particular group for a film, book, band, etc
  • custard powder — a powder containing cornflour, sugar, etc, for thickening milk to make a yellow sauce
  • cut-off switch — a switch that cuts off the supply of electricity
  • cutlery drawer — a drawer in which cutlery is kept
  • cutlips minnow — a cyprinid fish, Exoglossum maxillingua, of northeastern U.S. coastal waters, having a three-lobed lower lip.
  • daffadowndilly — a daffodil
  • daniel webster — Daniel, 1782–1852, U.S. statesman and orator.
  • dano-norwegian — Bokmål.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daycare worker — a person who works in a daycare centre
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