9-letter words containing d, o, w
- broadwise — breadthwise
- brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
- brownwood — a city in central Texas.
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- brushwood — Brushwood consists of small pieces of wood that have broken off trees and bushes.
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- burn down — If a building burns down or if someone burns it down, it is completely destroyed by fire.
- buzz word — a word, often originating in a particular jargon, that becomes a vogue word in the community as a whole or among a particular group
- 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.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
- catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- chop down — If you chop down a tree, you cut through its trunk with an axe so that it falls to the ground.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chow down — If you chow down on something, you eat a large amount of it quickly and with enthusiasm.
- chowhound — a greedy person or a person who loves eating
- chowkidar — (in India) a watchman or gatekeeper.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- 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.
- coachwood — an Australian tree, Ceratopetalum apetalum, yielding light aromatic wood used for furniture, turnery, etc
- coastward — towards the coast
- cobwebbed — A cobwebbed surface is covered with cobwebs.
- 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.
- 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.
- colicweed — any of several plants of the genera Dicentra or Corydalis, such as the squirrel corn and Dutchman's-breeches: family Fumariaceae
- come down — If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- 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.
- corkwoods — Plural form of corkwood.
- 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.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.