8-letter words containing c, w, a
- lock-jaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- male cow — a bull.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwatch — middle watch.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new face — Someone who is new in a particular public role can be referred to as a new face.
- newscast — a broadcast of news on radio or television.
- on watch — If someone is on watch, they have the job of carefully looking and listening, often while other people are asleep and often as a military duty, so that they can warn them of danger or an attack.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
- packwood — Bob, born 1932, U.S. politician: senator 1969–95.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- plowback — a reinvestment of earnings or profits in a business enterprise.
- pow camp — Prisoner of War camp: a place where soldiers who have been captured by their enemy during a war are kept as prisoners until the end of the war
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- 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.
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- 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.
- showcase — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- skewback — a sloping surface against which the end of an arch rests.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- 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.
- stickjaw — a food item that is difficult to chew such as toffee
- swayback — an excessive downward curvature of the spinal column in the dorsal region, especially of horses.
- szechwan — Sichuan.
- the waca — this Association's cricket ground in Perth
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- trackway — railway (def 3).
- two-pack — (of a paint, filler, etc) supplied as two separate components, for example a base and a catalyst, that are mixed together immediately before use
- unclawed — not mauled, scratched, or otherwise damaged by claws
- wackiest — Superlative form of wacky.
- waesucks — alas