8-letter words containing c, w, o
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- schawlow — Arthur Leonard, 1921–99, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1981.
- scofflaw — a person who flouts the law, especially one who fails to pay fines owed.
- scowling — to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
- screw-on — attached, connected, or closed by screwing onto another part of a container or receptacle.
- scutwork — menial, routine work, as that done by an underling: the scutwork of scrubbing pots and pans.
- showcase — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- siscowet — a variety of lake trout, Salvelinus namaycush siscowet, inhabiting the deeper waters of Lake Superior.
- slowback — a laggard, idler or lazy person
- snow ice — opaque ice formed from partly melted snow or ice; frozen slush.
- snowpack — the accumulation of winter snowfall, especially in mountain or upland regions.
- supercow — a dairy cow that produces a very high milk yield as a result of selective breeding or genetic modification
- the crow — the constellation Corvus
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- tungchow — Tongzhou.
- 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
- twoccing — the act of breaking into a motor vehicle and driving it away
- twopence — (used with a singular or plural verb) British. a sum of two pennies.
- wainscot — wood, especially oak and usually in the form of paneling, for lining interior walls.
- wardcorn — a payment of corn in the feudal law system
- warlocks — Plural form of warlock.
- watchbox — a sentry's shelter
- watchdog — a dog kept to guard property.
- watchout — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.
- way-cool — outstanding; excellent; marvellous
- waycross — a city in SE Georgia.
- wazzocks — Plural form of wazzock.
- webcomal — COMmon Algorithmic Language
- webcomic — an online comic strip or cartoon, especially one that was originally published online.
- wedlocks — Plural form of wedlock.
- welcomed — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomer — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- welcomes — a kindly greeting or reception, as to one whose arrival gives pleasure: to give someone a warm welcome.
- wet dock — a dock accessible only around the time of high tide and entered through locks or gates.
- whackjob — (colloquial, pejorative) A crazy, possibly dangerous, person.
- wheelock — Eleazar, 1711–79, U.S. clergyman and educator: founded Dartmouth College.
- whipcord — a cotton, woolen, or worsted fabric with a steep, diagonally ribbed surface.
- windsock — a tapered, tubular cloth vane, open at both ends and having at the larger end a fixed ring pivoted to swing freely, installed at airports or elsewhere to indicate wind direction and approximate intensity.
- wolf cub — a member of the junior division, for boys from 8 to 11, of the Boy Scouts; cub scout.
- wolfpack — A family or other group of wild wolves.
- woodchat — Also, woodchat shrike. a shrike, Lanius senator, of Europe and northern Africa, having a black forehead and a chestnut crown, nape, and mantle.
- woodchip — a small chip of wood, especially one that flakes off when felling a tree or splitting a log.
- woodchop — To chop wood, especially as a sport.
- woodcock — either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
- woodcuts — Plural form of woodcut.
- woodlice — Plural form of woodlouse.
- woolpack — a coarse fabric, usually of jute, in which raw wool is packed for transport.
- woolsack — a sack or bag of wool.
- woolwich — a former borough of Greater London, England, now part of Greenwich and Newham: royal military academy and arsenal.
- wordtech — (company) Manufacturers of Quicksilver. Address: Orinda, CA, USA.