11-letter words containing c, s, w
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- cross wires — cross hair (def 1).
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-foot — a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.
- crowstepped — (of a gable) having crow steps
- crushworthy — (usually, of a, person) Suitable for a crush (infatuation): attractive.
- cuckoo wasp — any of several small, metallic-green or -blue wasps of the family Chrysididae that deposit their eggs in nests of other wasps.
- cupid's bow — a shape of the upper lip considered to resemble Cupid's double-curved bow
- curie's law — the principle that the magnetic susceptibility of a paramagnetic substance is inversely proportional to its thermodynamic temperature
- czestochowa — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Warta: pilgrimage centre. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- darwinistic — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn chorus — The dawn chorus is the singing of birds at dawn.
- deuces wild — a variety or method of playing certain poker and other games in which a deuce represents any suit or denomination that the holder chooses: We're playing five-card stud, deuces wild.
- disc harrow — a harrow with sharp-edged slightly concave discs mounted on horizontal shafts and used to cut clods or debris on the surface of the soil or to cover seed after planting
- discrowning — Present participle of discrown.
- dockworkers — Plural form of dockworker.
- dower chest — a Pennsylvania Dutch hope chest bearing the initials of the owner.
- downscaling — Present participle of downscale.
- drive screw — a fastener with a helical thread of coarse pitch that can be driven into wood with a hammer and removed with a screwdriver.
- dwarf sumac — a shrub or small tree, Rhus copallina, of the cashew family, native to the eastern U.S., having shiny, pinnate leaves, greenish flowers, and clusters of red, berrylike fruit.
- ecowarriors — Plural form of ecowarrior.
- excise laws — laws relating to taxes on dutiable items
- facial wash — a beauty product which cleanses the skin of the face
- fast-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively rapidly, utilized especially in actions requiring maximum effort of short duration, as sprinting (distinguished from slow-twitch).
- gang switch — a collection of switches connected to separate circuits and operating simultaneously.
- gypsy winch — a small winch or crab.
- ice flowers — formations of ice crystals on the surface of a still, slowly freezing body of water.