9-letter words containing c, w, o
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- chow mein — Chow mein is a Chinese-style dish that consists of fried noodles, cooked meat, and vegetables.
- chow-chow — a thick-coated breed of the spitz type of dog with a curled tail and a characteristic blue-black tongue; it came originally from China
- chowhound — a greedy person or a person who loves eating
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- chuanchow — a seaport in SE Fujian province, in SE China, on Taiwan Strait.
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- clockwork — A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clownlike — Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- co-winner — one of two or more joint winners.
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- coachwhip — a coachwhip snake
- coachwood — an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum apetalum, yielding light aromatic wood used for furniture, turnery, etc
- coachwork — the design and manufacture of car bodies
- coastward — towards the coast
- coastwise — along the coast
- cobwebbed — A cobwebbed surface is covered with cobwebs.
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocuswood — wood from the tropical American leguminous tree Brya ebenus, used for inlaying, turnery, musical instruments, etc
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- code word — A code word is a word or phrase that has a special meaning, different from its normal meaning, for the people who have agreed to use it in this way.
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-weld — to join (two metal surfaces) without heat by forcing them together so that the oxide films are broken and adhesion occurs
- cold-work — to work (metal) at a temperature below that at which recrystallization occurs.
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- colicweed — any of several plants of the genera Dicentra or Corydalis, such as the squirrel corn and Dutchman's-breeches: family Fumariaceae
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- colourway — one of several different combinations of colours in which a given pattern is printed on fabrics, wallpapers, etc
- come away — to become detached
- come down — If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- cookstown — a district of central Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 33 387 (2003 est). Area: 622 sq km (240 sq miles)