9-letter words containing w, a, r, c, o
- microwatt — a unit of power equal to one millionth of a watt. Symbol: μW, μ w.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- power mac — (computer) Apple Computer's personal computer based on the PowerPC, introduced on 1994-03-14. The Power Mac G4 (Quicksilver 2002) was the first Power Mac to clock at 1 GHz. In mid-2003, the Power Mac G5 was released, the first Mac to be based on a 64-bit architecture. IBM manufactured the CPU for this new model. The clock speed was initially 1.6 GHz but a dual 2 GHz system was available in September. Existing 680x0 code (both applications and device drivers) run on Power Mac systems without modification via a Motorola 68LC040 emulator. The performance of these unmodified applications is equivalent to a fast 68040-based Macintosh, e.g. a fast Macintosh Quadra. The Power Mac runs Macintosh operating system from System 7.5 to Mac OS 8.5.
- prowl car — squad car.
- raw score — the original score, as of a test, before it is statistically adjusted.
- rock wall — rock fence.
- rockwater — water that comes out of rock
- scalework — an ornamentation technique used to depict scales on fish or other creatures
- scarecrow — an object, usually a figure of a person in old clothes, set up to frighten crows or other birds away from crops.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- two-track — an oblique movement of a horse in which the forehand and hindquarters move on two distinct parallel tracks and the body is maintained uniformly in the direction of the movement.
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- watch for — be vigilant for, careful of
- watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- who cares — I don't care
- wolframic — tungstic.
- woodcraft — skill in anything that pertains to the woods or forest, especially in making one's way through the woods or in hunting, trapping, etc.
- work back — to work overtime
- work camp — a camp for prisoners sentenced to labor, especially to outdoor labor such as roadbuilding or farming.
- workplace — a person's place of employment.
- workspace — space used or required for one's work, as in an office or home.
- world car — an automobile designed to be built with standard parts manufactured in various countries and sold, with few changes, throughout the world.
- wormcasts — Plural form of wormcast.