9-letter words containing o, w
- cow vetch — a climbing plant, Vicia cracca, of the legume family, of Eurasia and North America, having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers.
- cowabunga — Used to express delight or satisfaction.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowboy up — to adopt a tough approach or course of action
- cowboying — Present participle of cowboy.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- coworkers — a fellow worker; colleague.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crossbows — Plural form of crossbow.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosswalk — A crosswalk is a place where pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.
- crossways — crosswise.
- 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.
- crossword — A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
- crosswort — a herbaceous perennial Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium cruciata, with pale yellow flowers and whorls of hairy leaves
- crow over — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crow pram — concurrent read, owner write PRAM.
- crow-bill — a type of forceps used to extract bullets, etc, from wounds
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- crown law — criminal law
- crown rot — a disease of plants, characterized by the rotting of the stem at ground level, caused by any of several fungi.
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cup towel — a dishtowel.