8-letter words containing c, w, o
- hangchow — Older Spelling. Hangzhou.
- holy cow — astonishment
- how come — in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- ice show — entertainment in which a company of ice skaters exhibit their skills to musical accompaniment.
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- 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
- kingchow — former name of Jiangling.
- kweichow — Guizhou.
- lacewood — the quartersawed wood of the sycamore tree.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lock-jaw — tetanus in which the jaws become firmly locked together; trismus.
- lockaway — an investment intended to be held for a relatively long time
- lockdown — the confining of prisoners to their cells, as following a riot or other disturbance.
- lockwood — Belva Ann Bennett [bel-vuh] /ˈbɛl və/ (Show IPA), 1830–1917, U.S. lawyer and women's-rights activist.
- locoweed — any of various leguminous plants of the genera Astragalus and Oxytropis, of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico, causing locoism in sheep, horses, etc.
- low tech — low-technology.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- low-cost — able to be purchased or acquired at relatively little cost: low-cost life insurance; low-cost housing.
- low-tech — low-technology.
- male cow — a bull.
- mcdowell — Ephraim, 1771–1830, U.S. surgeon.
- milk cow — a cow that is raised for its milk rather than for beef.
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- neckdown — An angled narrowing of the roadway and widening of the pavement, used as a traffic calming measure.
- newcombe — John (David). born 1944, Australian tennis player; winner of seven Grand Slam singles titles (1967–75), including three at Wimbledon (1967, 1970, 1971)
- newcomen — Thomas, 1663–1729, English inventor.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- nowhence — from no place; from nowhere
- 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.
- oswiecim — Polish name of Auschwitz.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude
- outwatch — to outdo or surpass in watching.
- overcrow — to crow over
- owrecome — the chorus of a song
- 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
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- rockweed — a fucoid seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide.
- rockwell — Norman, 1894–1978, U.S. illustrator.
- rockwork — stonework.