8-letter words containing c, s, w
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crewless — with no crew
- 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
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- cudweeds — Plural form of cudweed.
- 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
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- 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.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- eschewed — Deliberately avoid using; abstain from.
- eschewer — One who eschews.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- fitchews — Plural form of fitchew.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- icewines — Plural form of icewine.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- low-cost — able to be purchased or acquired at relatively little cost: low-cost life insurance; low-cost housing.
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- newsclip — A very high level language designed for writing netnews filters. It translates into C. It includes support for various newsreaders. Version 1.01 includes a translator from NewsClip to C, examples and documentation. NewsClip was written by Looking Glass Software Ltd. and is distributed and used by ClariNet Communications Corporation It is only supported for ClariNet customers. Output of the filters may not be sold and donation for use of this program is hinted at. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- oswiecim — Polish name of Auschwitz.
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- scalawag — a scamp; rascal.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- schwaben — German name of Swabia.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- scowling — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- 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.