9-letter words containing c, w, a
- lynch law — the administration of summary punishment, especially death, upon a suspected, accused, or convicted person by a mob acting without legal process or authority.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- mackinaws — Plural form of mackinaw.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- matholwch — a legendary king of Ireland and the husband of Branwen.
- microwatt — a unit of power equal to one millionth of a watt. Symbol: μW, μ w.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- mucksweat — profuse sweat or a state of profuse sweating
- newcastle — 1st Duke of, Pelham-Holles, Thomas.
- newchwang — Niuzhuang.
- news case — one of a pair of wooden, metal, or plastic trays divided into compartments for the sorting of type. Compare case2 (def 8).
- newscasts — Plural form of newscast.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- pack wall — pack1 (def 12a).
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- pawtucket — a city in NE Rhode Island.
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- sacagawea — ("Bird Woman") 1787?–1812? Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.
- sacajawea — ("Bird Woman") 1787?–1812? Shoshone guide and interpreter: accompanied Lewis and Clark expedition 1804–05.
- salic law — a code of laws of the Salian Franks and other Germanic tribes, especially a provision in this code excluding females from the inheritance of land.
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scallawag — scalawag.
- scallywag — scalawag.
- scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
- scareware — Computers. software that is sold as computer security or as an antivirus or other utility program but is either useless or is itself malware: I was a victim of scareware—I got a warning that my computer was about to fail, so I panicked and purchased the advertised software, which wiped my hard drive instead of fixing it!
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scots law — the body of law in force in Scotland
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.