9-letter words containing d, o, w
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- 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.
- 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.
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dead wood — People or things that have been used for a very long time and that are no longer considered to be useful can be referred to as dead wood.
- deadwoods — Plural form of deadwood.
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
- deep down — If you know something deep down or deep down inside, you know that it is true, but you are not always conscious of it or willing to admit it to yourself.
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- devilwood — a variety of small broadleaf evergreen tree, Osmanthus americanus, native to the southeast US
- dew point — the temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- dicky bow — a bow tie
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- disallows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disallow.
- disavowal — a disowning; repudiation; denial.
- disavowed — Deny any responsibility or support for.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- dishallow — to profane; desecrate.
- dishtowel — a towel for drying dishes.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- dog whelk — any of several carnivorous, marine gastropods of the family Nassidae.
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- doorwoman — the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dow jones — financial news firm
- dowdiness — The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
- dowelling — Present participle of dowel.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- down east — New England.