9-letter words containing c, o, d, w
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crossword — A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- dicky bow — a bow tie
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- kick down — vehicle: lower gear
- knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- lockdowns — Plural form of lockdown.
- locoweeds — Plural form of locoweed.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- neckdowns — Plural form of neckdown.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- overcrowd — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
- prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
- scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- showcased — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
- stockwood — (Arthur) Mervyn. 1913–95, British Anglican prelate; bishop of Southwark (1959–80)
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
- touchdown — Football. an act or instance of scoring six points by being in possession of the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line.
- touchwood — wood converted into an easily ignitible substance by the action of certain fungi, and used as tinder; punk.