10-letter words containing c, o, n, w
- cottonwick — a grunt, Haemulon melanurum, of warm Atlantic seas.
- cottonwood — A cottonwood or a cottonwood tree is a kind of tree that grows in North America and has seeds that are covered with hairs that look like cotton.
- cottonwool — Alternative form of cotton wool.
- count down — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countdowns — Plural form of countdown.
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- cowpersons — Plural form of cowperson.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cross wind — a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- crosswinds — Plural form of crosswind.
- crown fire — a forest fire that spreads along treetops, often at great speeds.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- down-cycle — business: move downward
- downcasted — Simple past tense and past participle of downcast.
- downcomers — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcurved — curved downward at the edges or end: his downcurved mouth conveyed his disappointment; downcurved beak.
- downscaled — Simple past tense and past participle of downscale.
- dutchwoman — a female native or inhabitant of the Netherlands; a woman of Dutch ancestry.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- henchwoman — Feminine of henchman.
- henchwomen — Plural form of henchwoman.
- knock down — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- knockdowns — Plural form of knockdown.
- knockwurst — knackwurst.
- local wind — one of a number of winds that are influenced predominantly by the topographic features of a relatively small region.
- low-income — of or relating to those with a relatively small income.
- low-necked — (of a dress or other garment) cut low so as to leave the neck and shoulders exposed; décolleté.
- lunchwagon — a small bus, truck, or other vehicle outfitted for selling or for serving light meals and snacks to the public.
- narrowback — a person of slight build who is unfit for hard labor.
- narrowcast — to aim a program or programming at a specific, limited audience or sales market.
- new comedy — Greek comedy arising toward the end of the 4th century b.c. that employed stock characters and plots drawn from contemporary bourgeois life, the formulas of which were adopted by later Roman writers for the comic stage.