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13-letter words containing c, r, a, w, t

  • 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
  • rat claw foot — an elongated foot having the form of a thin claw grasping a ball.
  • ratchet wheel — a wheel, with teeth on the edge, into which a pawl drops or catches, as to prevent reversal of motion or convert reciprocating motion into rotatory motion.
  • sachet-powder — a small bag, case, or pad containing perfuming powder or the like, placed among handkerchiefs, lingerie, etc., to impart a pleasant scent.
  • sandwich tern — a European tern, Sterna sandvicensis, that has a yellow-tipped bill, whitish plumage, and white forked tail, and nests in colonies on beaches, etc
  • scarlet woman — a sexually promiscuous woman, especially a prostitute or a woman who commits adultery.
  • 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.
  • shark watcher — a business consultant who assists companies in identifying and preventing unwelcome takeover bids
  • stock warrant — A stock warrant is the right to buy stock at a particular price on a particular date directly from the issuing company.
  • sunrise watch — dogwatch (def 2).
  • surface water — water found on the surface of the earth (not underground or in the atmosphere), for example in rivers, seas, lakes, reservoirs, etc
  • swagger stick — a short, batonlike stick, usually leather-covered, sometimes carried by army officers, soldiers, etc.
  • switched-star — denoting or relating to a cable television system in which only one or two programme channels are fed to each subscriber, who can select other channels by remote control of a central switching point
  • tactical wire — wire entanglements used to break up attacking enemy formations or to keep them within the field of defensive fire.
  • talcum powder — a powder made of purified, usually perfumed talc, for toilet purposes.
  • the civil war — the war between the North (the Union) and the South (the Confederacy) in the U.S. (1861-65)
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • throw a curve — a continuously bending line, without angles.
  • throw a punch — try to hit sb
  • trip a switch — to activate (a mechanical trip)
  • vacation work — work undertaken by students during their vacation
  • 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
  • warning track — a strip, often consisting of a cinder or dirt track, bordering the outer edge of the outfield between the outfield turf and the stadium wall that alerts outfielders that the wall is near, especially as they back up to catch a fly ball.
  • wasatch range — a mountain range in N Utah and SE Idaho. Highest peak, Mt. Timpanogos, 12,008 feet (3660 meters).
  • waste product — material discarded as useless in the process of producing something.
  • watch out for — remain vigilant for, beware of
  • water biscuit — a crackerlike biscuit prepared from flour and water.
  • water carrier — a person who carries water, as to a body of troops.
  • water curtain — a sheet of water from a series of sprinklers for protecting the walls and roof of a building from fires outside the building.
  • 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.
  • water lettuce — a floating aquatic plant, Pistia stratiotes, of the arum family, having a rosette of thick, spongy leaves.
  • 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.
  • wearable tech — wearable technology (def 2): items of wearable tech.
  • weather check — if you get a weather check you find out what the weather is like
  • weathercaster — an announcer on a radio or television station who delivers the weathercast.
  • weathercocked — Simple past tense and past participle of weathercock.
  • west germanic — a subbranch of Germanic that includes English, Frisian, Flemish, Dutch, Plattdeutsch, Yiddish, and German. Abbreviation: WGmc.
  • western larch — a North American larch, Larix occidentalis, having oval cones and found mainly in S British Columbia
  • western ocean — the North Atlantic Ocean.
  • whale catcher — a vessel engaged in the actual harpooning of whales
  • white arsenic — arsenous acid
  • white crappie — See under crappie.
  • white croaker — kingfish (def 2).
  • white currant — a cultivated N temperate shrub, Ribes sativum, having small rounded white edible berries: family Grossulariaceae
  • wine merchant — a person or organization engaged in the buying and selling of large quantities of wine
  • woman teacher — a female schoolteacher
  • woodcraftsman — a person who is skilled in woodcraft.
  • wool merchant — a dealer in wool
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