9-letter words containing c, w, o
- cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- coopworth — a New Zealand and Australian breed of sheep derived from the Romney Marsh
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- corkwoods — Plural form of corkwood.
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- corn snow — granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
- cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
- cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
- countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
- cow cocky — a one-man dairy farmer
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cow pilot — sergeant major (sense 3)
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- cow vetch — a climbing plant, Vicia cracca, of the legume family, of Eurasia and North America, having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
- cowboying — Present participle of cowboy.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- coworkers — a fellow worker; colleague.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crossbows — Plural form of crossbow.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crossways — crosswise.
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crossword — A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
- crosswort — a herbaceous perennial Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium cruciata, with pale yellow flowers and whorls of hairy leaves
- crow over — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crow pram — concurrent read, owner write PRAM.