9-letter words containing r, e, w
- breakaway — A breakaway group is a group of people who have separated from a larger group, for example because of a disagreement.
- breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
- breakwall — breakwater
- breezeway — a roofed passageway connecting two buildings, sometimes with the sides enclosed
- brentwood — a residential town in SE England, in SW Essex near London. Pop: 47 593 (2001)
- brewhouse — a brewery
- bridewell — a house of correction; jail, esp for minor offences
- bridleway — A bridleway is the same as a bridle path.
- brierwood — brierroot
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- broadwise — breadthwise
- brookweed — either of two white-flowered primulaceous plants, Samolus valerandi of Europe or S. floribundus of North America, growing in moist places
- brown ale — a rich ale made with brown or dark malt
- browridge — the ridge of bone over the eye sockets
- browsable — able to be browsed
- bush wren — a wren, Xenicus longipes, occurring in New Zealand: family Xenicidae
- byrewoman — a woman who works in a byre
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cd writer — A CD writer is a piece of computer equipment that you use for copying data from a computer onto a CD.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clerihews — Plural form of clerihew.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- co-winner — one of two or more joint winners.
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- code word — A code word is a word or phrase that has a special meaning, different from its normal meaning, for the people who have agreed to use it in this way.
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.