9-letter words containing e, w, a
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- 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.
- 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.
- catchweed — a weedy plant with a prickly stem
- 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.
- 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.
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- coastwise — along the coast
- 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.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- come away — to become detached
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- creamware — a type of earthenware with a deep cream body developed about 1720 and widely produced
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.