9-letter words containing c, r, e, w
- overwatch — to watch over.
- piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
- pinwrench — wrench with a projection to fit a hole
- power cut — break in electricity supply
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- prestwich — a town in NW England, in Bury unitary authority, Greater Manchester. Pop: 31 693 (2001)
- prestwick — international airport in W Scotland.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
- rice bowl — deep dish for rice
- rice wine — sake: for drinking
- rock wren — an American wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, inhabiting the foothills, badlands, and mesa country of the western U.S. and Mexico.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
- scareware — Computers. software that is sold as computer security or as an antivirus or other utility program but is either useless or is itself malware: I was a victim of scareware—I got a warning that my computer was about to fail, so I panicked and purchased the advertised software, which wiped my hard drive instead of fixing it!
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- schwinger — Julian Seymour, 1918–94, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1965.
- screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
- screw eye — a screw having a ring-shaped head.
- screw fly — screwworm fly.
- screw nut — a nut threaded to receive a screw.
- screw off — 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 top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screw you — expressing contempt
- screw-off — a loafer; idler.
- screw-top — (of a container) having a top that screws on.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- screwworm — the larva of any of certain flies of the genus Callitroga, which sometimes infests wounds and the nose and navel of domestic animals and humans.
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- shipwreck — the destruction or loss of a ship, as by sinking.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- snowcreep — a continuous, slow, downhill movement of snow.
- spaceward — going into space
- sweetcorn — Sweetcorn is a long rounded vegetable covered in small yellow seeds. It is part of the maize plant. The seeds themselves can also be referred to as sweetcorn.
- the crowd — the common people; the masses
- uncrowded — filled to excess; packed.
- uncrowned — not crowned; not having yet assumed the crown.
- walcheren — an island in SW Netherlands: part of Zeeland province. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- war chest — money set aside or scheduled for a particular purpose or activity, as for a political campaign or organizational drive.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- war dance — a dance preliminary to going into battle or in celebration of a victory, as formerly among American Indians.
- water cut — The water cut is the ratio of the water which is produced in a well compared to the volume of the total liquids produced.
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.