9-letter words containing c, o, n, w
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- 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.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- crown law — criminal law
- crown rot — a disease of plants, characterized by the rotting of the stem at ground level, caused by any of several fungi.
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- 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.
- escrowing — Present participle of escrow.
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- hick town — an insulting way of referring to a small town in the countryside that is not deemed to be very sophisticated
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- inchworms — Plural form of inchworm.
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- kick down — vehicle: lower gear
- kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
- knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- 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.
- low-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively low number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- neckdowns — Plural form of neckdown.
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
- rock wren — an American wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, inhabiting the foothills, badlands, and mesa country of the western U.S. and Mexico.
- 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