8-letter words containing c, o, w, r
- coworker — Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- cowriter — a writer who works in collaboration with another writer
- crabwood — a tropical American meliaceous tree, Carapa guianensis
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- cribwork — a supporting framework of beams, logs, etc. built in layers, each layer having its unit at right angles to those of the layer below
- cromwell — Oliver. 1599–1658, English general and statesman. A convinced Puritan, he was an effective leader of the parliamentary army in the Civil War. After the execution of Charles I he quelled the Royalists in Scotland and Ireland, and became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth (1653–58)
- crossbow — A crossbow is a weapon consisting of a small, powerful bow that is fixed across a piece of wood, and aimed like a gun.
- crossway — a junction
- crow jim — reverse racism; racism by Black people against White people
- crow-hop — a short hop.
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crowboot — a type of Inuit boot made of fur and leather
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowfoot — any of several plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. sceleratus and R. aquatilis (water crowfoot) that have yellow or white flowers and divided leaves resembling the foot of a crow
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- crownlet — a small crown
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cry wolf — If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cussword — a swearword
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- doctorow — E(dgar) L(aurence) born 1931, U.S. author and editor.
- ductwork — a system of ducts used for a particular purpose, as in a ventilation or heating system.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- forcetwo — An unofficial successor to ForceOne by Andrew K. Wright.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawcourt — a court of law
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- overcrow — to crow over
- owrecome — the chorus of a song