9-letter words containing c, w
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- can't win — If you say that someone can't win in a particular situation, you mean that they are certain to fail or to suffer whatever they do.
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- carraways — Plural form of carraway.
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- cassowary — any large flightless bird of the genus Casuarius, inhabiting forests in NE Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands, having a horny head crest, black plumage, and brightly coloured neck and wattles: order Casuariiformes
- cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- castaways — Plural form of castaway.
- cat's paw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
- cat's-paw — a person used by another as a tool; dupe
- catchweed — a weedy plant with a prickly stem
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- causeways — Plural form of causeway.
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.
- cavewomen — Plural form of cavewoman.
- cd writer — A CD writer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a CD.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- cell wall — the outer layer of a cell, esp the structure in plant cells that consists of cellulose, lignin, etc, and gives mechanical support to the cell
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chafeweed — wood cudweed.
- chain saw — A chain saw is a big saw with teeth fixed in a chain that is driven round by a motor.
- chain-saw — to cut or cut down (lumber, a tree, etc.) with a chain saw.
- chainsaws — Plural form of chainsaw.
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- changchow — a city in S Fujian province, in SE China.
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charwoman — A charwoman is a woman who is employed to clean houses or offices.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- chawbacon — an unsophisticated person of low intellect
- chengchow — Zhengzhou
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi