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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.
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