9-letter words containing i, r, w
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- crib-wall — a supporting wall constructed by laying cribs at right angles to each other, as in cribwork
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- 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.
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- dead wire — a wire that is not carrying current
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dire dawa — city in E Ethiopia: pop. 98,000
- 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.
- dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- downright — thorough; absolute; out-and-out: a downright falsehood.
- downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
- downstair — down the stairs.
- draw fire — If you draw fire for something that you have done, you cause people to criticize you or attack you because of it.
- draw into — involve sb in sth
- draw rein — to tighten the reins
- draw-slip — a person or thing that lopes, as a horse with a loping gait.
- drawknife — a knife with a handle at each end at right angles to the blade, used by drawing over a surface.
- driftwood — wood floating on a body of water or cast ashore by it.
- drinkware — Vessels from which people drink.
- driveaway — the delivery of a car to a buyer or to a specified destination by means of a hired driver.
- driveways — Plural form of driveway.
- drownings — Plural form of drowning.
- dwarflike — Resembling a dwarf or some aspect of one; small, diminutive.
- dwarfling — A diminutive dwarf.
- earwigged — Simple past tense and past participle of earwig.
- edward ii — 1284–1327, king of England 1307–27 (son of Edward I).
- edward iv — 1442–83, king of England 1461–70, 1471–1483: 1st king of the house of York.
- edward vi — 1537–53, king of England 1547–53 (son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).
- edwardian — of or relating to the reign of Edward VII.
- eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.
- erstwhile — Former.
- escrowing — Present participle of escrow.
- fair lawn — a city in NE New Jersey.