13-letter words containing l, w
- 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.
- chimney wheel — smokejack.
- chrome yellow — any yellow pigment consisting of lead chromate mixed with lead sulphate
- clamp down on — a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- class warfare — conflict, tension between social classes
- class-warfare — Also called class conflict. conflict between different classes in a community resulting from different social or economic positions and reflecting opposed interests.
- cliff dweller — (usually initial capital letter) a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern U.S., who were ancestors of the Pueblo Indians and built shelters in caves or on the ledges of cliffs.
- cliff swallow — an American swallow, Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, that has a square-tipped tail and builds nests of mud on cliffs, walls, etc
- cliff-dweller — a member of a prehistoric people of the southwestern US who built shelters on the ledges of cliffs or in caves
- climbing wall — a specially constructed wall with recessed and projecting holds to give practice in rock climbing; a feature of many sports centres
- clock watcher — an employee who demonstrates lack of interest in a job by watching the time closely to be sure to stop work as soon as the workday or shift is over.
- clock-watcher — an employee who checks the time in anticipation of a break or of the end of the working day
- clown anemone — a widely distributed anemone fish, Amphiprion ocellaris, having broad bands of orange and white: popular in home aquariums.
- club sandwich — a sandwich consisting of three or more slices of toast or bread with a filling
- cobalt yellow — aureolin.
- cobbler's wax — a resin used for waxing thread
- cologne brown — Vandyke brown.
- come to blows — to fight
- common mallow — cheese1 (def 5).
- common sallow — a small Eurasian willow tree, Salix cinerea, which has large catkins that appear before the leaves
- commonwealths — Plural form of commonwealth.
- complete with — If one thing comes complete with another, it has that thing as an extra or additional part.
- constablewick — the area of land under the charge of a constable
- control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
- conway's life — Conway's Game of Life
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- corkscrewlike — Resembling a corkscrew, usually specifically the worm of a corkscrew.
- corporate law — law that relates to corporations and to business activities in general
- could do with — If you say that you could do with something, you mean that you need it or would benefit from it.
- coulomb's law — the principle that the force of attraction or repulsion between two point electric charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. A similar law holds for particles with mass
- cowl neckline — a neckline of women's clothes loosely folded over and sometimes resembling a folded hood
- coxwell chair — Cogswell chair.
- creepy-crawly — You can refer to insects as creepy-crawlies when they give you a feeling of fear or disgust. This word is mainly used by children.
- crowd control — the management of crowds at sporting events, demonstrations, etc, to prevent trouble
- crowd on sail — to hoist as much sail as possible
- crowd pleaser — a person, performance, etc., having great popular appeal.
- crowd trouble — bad behaviour by fans at a sports match
- crowd-pleaser — If you describe a performer, politician, or sports player as a crowd-pleaser, you mean they always please their audience. You can also describe an action or event as a crowd-pleaser.
- crown molding — decorative ceiling trim
- cuckooflowers — Plural form of cuckooflower.
- cucurbit wilt — a disease of cucumbers and other plants of the gourd family, characterized by wilted leaves, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia tracheiphila.
- customer flow — Customer flow is the movement of customers around a store.
- darling downs — a plateau in NE Australia, in SE Queensland: a vast agricultural and stock-raising area
- devil worship — the worship of Satan or of a demon
- dewar (flask) — a double-walled flask with a vacuum between the walls, which are silvered on the inside, used esp. for storage of liquefied gases
- digital watch — a watch that displays the time in numerical digits rather than by hands on a dial.
- disallowances — Plural form of disallowance.