9-letter words containing r, e, w
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- coworkers — a fellow worker; colleague.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- creamware — a type of earthenware with a deep cream body developed about 1720 and widely produced
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- creek war — an uprising in 1813–14 of the Creek Indians against settlers in Alabama: frontier militia from Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi under Andrew Jackson helped defeat the Creek, who ceded two-thirds of their land to the U.S.
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crew neck — A crew neck or a crew neck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crow over — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- daywalker — (fantasy) One who can go out in the sunlight, distinguished from vampires etc. who cannot.
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- dead wire — a wire that is not carrying current
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
- deep-draw — to form (tubing, containers, etc.) by pulling strip or sheet metal between suitably formed and spaced dies. Compare cup (def 22).
- deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
- delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- dewatered — Simple past tense and past participle of dewater.
- dewaterer — a person who or a thing which dewaters
- 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.
- dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.