9-letter words containing c, w, a
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- curassows — Plural form of curassow.
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- eachwhere — all over or in every place
- ecofallow — a method of farming that diminishes weeds and conserves water by rotating crops and reducing or eliminating tillage.
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- fancywork — ornamental needlework.
- flowchart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- fob watch — a pocket watch that is attached to a waistcoat by a chain or ribbon
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- hack away — keep chopping at sth
- hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
- hatchways — Plural form of hatchway.
- hornwrack — a yellowish bryozoan or sea mat sometimes found on beaches after a storm
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- iowa city — a city in SE Iowa.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- jackstraw — one of a group of strips of wood or similar objects, as straws or toothpicks, used in the game of jackstraws.
- jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
- jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
- kawaguchi — a city on SE Honshu, in central Japan, N of Tokyo.
- kickshaws — Plural form of kickshaw.
- kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
- lacewings — Plural form of lacewing.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- law court — court of law.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- lock away — put in prison
- low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.