9-letter words containing s, w
- chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chickasaw — a member of a Native American people of N Mississippi
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clerihews — Plural form of clerihew.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- coastward — towards the coast
- coastwise — along the coast
- cockswain — coxswain
- cocuswood — wood from the tropical American leguminous tree Brya ebenus, used for inlaying, turnery, musical instruments, etc
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- colorways — Plural form of colorway.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- cookstown — a district of central Northern Ireland, in Co Tyrone. Pop: 33 387 (2003 est). Area: 622 sq km (240 sq miles)
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- corkwoods — Plural form of corkwood.
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- corn snow — granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
- cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cow shark — any large primitive shark, esp Hexanchus griseum, of the family Hexanchidae of warm and temperate waters
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowfishes — Plural form of cowfish.
- 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.
- coxswains — Plural form of coxswain.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
- 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
- crowfoots — Plural form of crowfoot.