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11-letter words containing n, w, o, r

  • camerawomen — Plural form of camerawoman.
  • candlepower — the luminous intensity of a source of light in a given direction: now expressed in candelas but formerly in terms of the international candle
  • caneworking — A glassblowing technique that uses rods of coloured glass to add intricate patterns and stripes to blown glass objects.
  • cankerworms — Plural form of cankerworm.
  • charlestown — oldest part of Boston, at the mouth of the Charles River: site of the battle of Bunker Hill
  • churchwoman — a female practising member of a church
  • churchwomen — Plural form of churchwoman.
  • citron wood — the wood of the citron tree
  • clergywoman — a female member of the clergy
  • clergywomen — Plural form of clergywoman.
  • cockcrowing — The crowing sound of a cock.
  • condo owner — A condo owner is the owner of a condominium.
  • coneflowers — Plural form of coneflower.
  • contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
  • cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
  • copywriting — a writer of copy, especially for advertisements or publicity releases.
  • copywronged — copybroke
  • cordwainery — Shoemaking.
  • corn whisky — whisky made from maize
  • cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
  • counterblow — a retaliatory blow
  • counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
  • counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
  • counterglow — gegenschein.
  • counterview — an opposite or opposing view
  • counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
  • counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
  • countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
  • cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
  • cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
  • cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
  • cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
  • craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
  • craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
  • cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
  • crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
  • crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
  • crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
  • crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
  • crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
  • crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
  • crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
  • crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
  • crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
  • crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
  • crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
  • crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
  • crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
  • crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
  • crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
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