10-letter words containing n, o, w
- coneflower — any North American plant of the genera Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Echinacea, which have rayed flowers with a conelike centre: family Asteraceae (composites)
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- coping saw — a handsaw with a U-shaped frame used for cutting curves in a material too thick for a fret saw
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- cornerwise — with a corner in front; diagonally
- cornflower — Cornflowers are small plants with flowers that are usually blue.
- cornwallis — Charles, 1st Marquis Cornwallis. 1738–1805, British general in the War of American Independence: commanded forces defeated at Yorktown (1781): defeated Tipu Sahib (1791): governor general of Bengal (1786–93, 1805): negotiated the Treaty of Amiens (1801)
- cottonweed — a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cottonwick — a grunt, Haemulon melanurum, of warm Atlantic seas.
- cottonwood — A cottonwood or a cottonwood tree is a kind of tree that grows in North America and has seeds that are covered with hairs that look like cotton.
- cottonwool — Alternative form of cotton wool.
- count down — to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.
- countdowns — Plural form of countdown.
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- coweringly — in a cowering manner
- cowpersons — Plural form of cowperson.
- cowpuncher — cowboy
- crack down — If people in authority crack down on a group of people, they become stricter in making the group obey rules or laws.
- crackdowns — Plural form of crackdown.
- cross wind — a wind blowing across the course or path of a ship, aircraft, etc.
- cross-town — going across or following a route across a town
- crosswinds — Plural form of crosswind.
- crown fire — a forest fire that spreads along treetops, often at great speeds.
- crown gall — a disease of peaches, apples, roses, grapes, etc., characterized by the formation of galls on the roots or stems usually at or below ground level, caused by a bacterium, Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
- crown land — (in the United Kingdom) land belonging to the Crown
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- crown post — any vertical member in a roof truss, especially a king post.
- crown rust — a disease of oats and other grasses, characterized by the formation, on the leaves, of orange or black spores, caused by a rust fungus, Puccinia coronata.
- crown wart — a disease of alfalfa and clover, characterized by galls around the base of the stem, caused by several fungi of the genus Urophlyctis.
- crownbeard — any of various American composite plants constituting the genus Verbesina, having clustered, usually yellow flower heads.
- crownpiece — the piece forming or fitting the top of something
- currawongs — Plural form of currawong.
- czernowitz — German name of Cernăuţi.
- dairywoman — a woman who owns, manages, or works in a dairy.
- dairywomen — Plural form of dairywoman.
- dawn horse — eohippus.
- decwindows — DEC's windowing environment based on the X Window System.
- denis howe — (person) Denis B. Howe (1960 -) Editor of the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
- disavowing — Present participle of disavow.
- discrowned — Simple past tense and past participle of discrown.
- disendowed — Simple past tense and past participle of disendow.
- disendower — One who disendows.
- disownment — 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.
- do wonders — have a transforming effect
- dog warden — dogcatcher.
- don't know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
- don't-know — a person who has no opinion or is undecided, as in answering an item on a public-opinion poll.
- donkeywork — Informal. tedious, repetitious work; drudgery.