11-letter words containing c, a, w, e
- cattlewoman — A woman who raises or tends cattle.
- cattlewomen — Plural form of cattlewoman.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- chain wheel — sprocket (def 1).
- chairwarmer — an office holder, committee member, or employee who is inactive and ineffective
- change down — When you change down, you move the gear lever in the vehicle you are driving in order to use a lower gear.
- charge with — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- charityware — careware
- charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
- cheektowaga — a town in NW New York, near Buffalo.
- chickenhawk — Also called hen hawk. (not used scientifically) any of various hawks said to prey on poultry.
- china white — a very potent form of synthetic heroin.
- chinese wax — a yellowish wax secreted by an oriental scale insect, Ceroplastes ceriferus, and used commercially
- chowderhead — a fool or an idiot
- clapperclaw — to claw or scratch with the hands and nails
- claw hammer — a hammer with a cleft at one end of the head for extracting nails
- clean sweep — an overwhelming victory
- clear water — a city in W Florida.
- clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
- coach screw — a large screw with a square head used in timber work in buildings, etc
- coat flower — a plant, Petrorhagia saxifraga, of the pink family, native to Eurasia, having pink or white flowers in terminal branching clusters.
- companywide — Extending throughout a company.
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- culture war — conflict of values
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- eco-warrior — An eco-warrior is someone who spends a lot of time working actively for environmental causes.
- ecowarriors — Plural form of ecowarrior.
- electroweak — combining both the electromagnetic and weak forces or interactions
- entranceway — A way into a place or thing, esp. a doorway or corridor at the entrance to a building.
- excise laws — laws relating to taxes on dutiable items
- face powder — a cosmetic powder used to give a mat finish to the face.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- frenchwoman — a woman who is a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly