8-letter words containing c, r, e, w
- 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)
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crownlet — a small crown
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- 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.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- eschewer — One who eschews.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- faceward — Toward the face.
- 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.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- 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.
- overcrow — to crow over
- owrecome — the chorus of a song
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- richweed — clearweed.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screw-in — fitting in by being twisted
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- screw-up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- setscrew — a screw passing through a threaded hole in a part to tighten the contact of that part with another, as of a collar with the shaft on which it fits.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- the crow — the constellation Corvus
- twitcher — to tug or pull at with a quick, short movement; pluck: She twitched him by the sleeve.
- uncrewed — lacking a crew
- watchers — Plural form of watcher.
- welcomer — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- wellcurb — a stone surround at the top of a well