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9-letter words containing c, w, o

  • jackwagon — (US, slang, derogatory) An objectionable person; a jerk; a jackass.
  • jane cowl — Jane, 1884–1950, U.S. actress and playwright.
  • kick down — vehicle: lower gear
  • kiungchow — Qiongzhou.
  • knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.
  • kwangchow — Older Spelling. Canton.
  • lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
  • law court — court of law.
  • lock away — put in prison
  • lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • lockdowns — Plural form of lockdown.
  • locoweeds — Plural form of locoweed.
  • low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
  • low-count — (of a woven fabric) having a relatively low number of warp and filling threads per square inch.
  • lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
  • macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
  • 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.
  • microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
  • 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.
  • microwire — A very small diameter wire, especially one with a glass coating.
  • milch cow — milk cow.
  • moscow ml — A light-weight implementation of Standard ML written by Sergei Romanenko <[email protected]> of the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics with assistance from Peter Sestoft <[email protected]>, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University. Moscow ML is based on CAML Light. Version: 1.20 implements the Standard ML Core language. The sublanguage of Modules implemented by Moscow ML contains signatures and non-nested structures, and identifies structures with source files. It is certainly less expressive than the full Standard ML Modules language, but the type-safe separate compilation facility is simple, useful, and easy to use. It is the intention to implement the full Standard ML Modules language (including functors) in due course. Compilation of a signature produces a compiled interface file, which is used when compiling other signatures and structures. Compilation of a structure produces a bytecode file. Bytecode files are compact and load fast. For instance, a 3250-line program consisting of 24 structures and 17 signatures compiles to 221 KB of bytecode and 241 KB of compiled signatures. Starting the ML system and loading the 24 bytecode files takes 1-2 cpu seconds plus network delays, less that 5 seconds real time in all. Release 1.20 permits loading of precompiled bytecode files into the top-level interactive session. The next release will be able to create stand-alone executables by linking bytecode files. There is a mechanism for adding basis libraries, as in Caml Light. Release 1.20 includes the basis libraries Array, List, and Vector and the MS-DOS version includes the Graphics library from Caml Light. In principle, Moscow ML can be compiled on any platform supported by Caml Light. So far we have tried Intel 80386-based IBM PCs running MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, OS/2 or Linux, DEC MIPS running Ultrix, DEC Alpha running OSF/1, Sun-4 running SunOS, HP9000 running HP/UX, SGI MIPS running IRIX 5. Moscow ML is particularly useful when fast compilation and modest storage consumption are more important than fast program execution. Thanks to the efficient Caml Light run-time system used in Moscow ML, it compiles fast and uses little memory, typically 5-10 times less memory than SML/NJ 0.93 and 2-3 times less than Edinburgh ML. Yet the bytecode is only 3 to 10 times slower than SML/NJ 0.93 compiled native code (fast on IBM PCs, slower on RISCs).
  • muckworms — Plural form of muckworm.
  • neckdowns — Plural form of neckdown.
  • newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
  • northwich — a town in NW England, in Cheshire: salt and chemical industries. Pop: 39 568 (2001)
  • oceanward — Toward the ocean.
  • overcrowd — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • overwatch — to watch over.
  • patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
  • peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
  • piecework — work done and paid for by the piece.
  • plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
  • power cut — break in electricity supply
  • 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.
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
  • prowl car — squad car.
  • punchbowl — a large bowl from which punch, lemonade, etc., is served, usually with a ladle.
  • raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
  • rice bowl — deep dish for rice
  • rock wall — rock fence.
  • rock wool — mineral wool.
  • rock wren — an American wren, Salpinctes obsoletus, inhabiting the foothills, badlands, and mesa country of the western U.S. and Mexico.
  • rockwater — water that comes out of rock
  • 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
  • scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
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