8-letter words containing c, w, a
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crew cab — A crew cab is a cab in a vehicle such as a fire engine that has been extended with a second row of seats to carry additional crew.
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship
- crossway — a junction
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- 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.
- 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
- cutaways — Plural form of cutaway.
- 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.
- cycleway — A cycleway is a road, route, or path for cyclists.
- 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.
- declawed — Simple past tense and past participle of declaw.
- dew claw — a functionless claw of some dogs, not reaching the ground in walking.
- dewclaws — Plural form of dewclaw.
- dogwatch — Nautical. either of two two-hour watches, the first from 4 to 6 p.m., the latter from 6 to 8 p.m.
- downcast — directed downward, as the eyes.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawcard — drawing card.
- duckwalk — Walk with the body in a squatting posture.
- each way — If you bet money each way on the result of a horse race or a dog race, you will win some money if the animal you bet on comes first, second, third, or sometimes fourth.
- 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
- eschewal — The act of eschewing.
- face bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- face-bow — a device for determining the relationship of the maxillae to the mandibular joint.
- facedown — with the face or the front or upper surface downward: He was lying facedown on the floor. Deal the cards facedown on the table.
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- flowback — return or redistribution of something that has been received or acquired.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hatchway — Nautical. hatch2 (def 1a).
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- jackdaws — Plural form of jackdaw.
- katowice — a city in S Poland.
- kiaochow — a former German-leased territory (1898–1914) on the Shandong peninsula, in E China, around Jiaozhou Bay. 200 sq. mi. (518 sq. km). Chief city, Tsingtao.
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- lacewing — any of several insects of the family Chrysopidae, having delicate, lacelike wings and golden or copper-colored eyes, the larvae of which are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.