8-letter words containing c, w, i
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- downtick — a decline or deterioration in business activity, in mood, etc.
- fitchews — Plural form of fitchew.
- gw-basic — (language) An early version of MS-BASIC.
- gwich'in — a member of a North American Indian people from northwest Canada and northeast Alaska
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- hawfinch — a European grosbeak, Coccothraustes coccothraustes.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- hickwall — any of certain European woodpeckers, especially the green woodpecker.
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- ice wine — any white dessert wine produced from grapes that are kept on the vine until the first deep frost and typically pressed while still frozen.
- icewines — Plural form of icewine.
- ichikawa — a city on E Honshu, in Japan, NE of Tokyo.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- itchweed — a hellebore, Veratrum album, that is native to Europe
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- 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.
- kickdown — a method of changing gear in a car with automatic transmission, by fully depressing the accelerator
- kickshaw — a tidbit or delicacy, especially one served as an appetizer or hors d'oeuvre.
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- 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.
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- midwatch — middle watch.
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- new city — a city in SE New York.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- 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.
- pickwick — a picklike implement for catching up and raising a short wick of an oil lamp.
- picowave — to irradiate (food) with gamma rays in order to retard spoilage.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- richweed — clearweed.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- sandwich — a town in E Kent, in SE England: one of the Cinque Ports.
- scawtite — a hydrated carbonate and silicate of calcium, Ca7Si6(CO3)O18·2H2O
- schwerin — a state in NE Germany. 8842 sq. mi. (22,900 sq. km). Capital: Schwerin.
- scowling — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- screw-in — fitting in by being twisted
- sedgwick — Ellery, 1872–1960, U.S. journalist and editor.
- siscowet — a variety of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush siscowet, inhabiting the deeper waters of Lake Superior.
- sleswick — Schleswig.
- snow ice — opaque ice formed from partly melted snow or ice; frozen slush.
- stickjaw — a food item that is difficult to chew such as toffee
- suchwise — in such a way or manner