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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.
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