9-letter words containing w, a, r, c
- 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.
- price war — intensive competition, especially among retailers, in which prices are repeatedly cut in order to undersell competitors or sometimes to force smaller competitors out of business.
- prowl car — squad car.
- pub crawl — visit to a series of bars
- pub-crawl — to have drinks at one bar after another.
- quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
- race-walk — to participate in race walking.
- 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.
- scareware — Computers. software that is sold as computer security or as an antivirus or other utility program but is either useless or is itself malware: I was a victim of scareware—I got a warning that my computer was about to fail, so I panicked and purchased the advertised software, which wiped my hard drive instead of fixing it!
- scarfwise — in the manner of a scarf
- scrawling — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- screw cap — a cap designed to screw onto the threaded mouth of a bottle, jar, or the like.
- screwable — able to be screwed
- screwball — Slang. an eccentric or whimsically eccentric person; a nut.
- screwbean — a small tree or shrub of the south-western United States that has edible pods
- screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
- scrimshaw — a carved or engraved article, especially of whale ivory, whalebone, walrus tusks, or the like, made by whalers as a leisure occupation.
- sea wrack — seaweed or a growth of seaweed, especially of the larger kinds cast up on the shore.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- skew arch — an arch, as at the entrance to a tunnel, having sides, or jambs, that are not at right angles with the face.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- spaceward — going into space
- 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.
- walbrzych — a city in SW Poland, in Silesia.
- walcheren — an island in SW Netherlands: part of Zeeland province. 82 sq. mi. (212 sq. km).
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- wallchart — (education) A large informational chart, typically hung on the wall of a classroom.
- war chest — money set aside or scheduled for a particular purpose or activity, as for a political campaign or organizational drive.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- war crime — Usually, war crimes. crimes committed against an enemy, prisoners of war, or subjects in wartime that violate international agreements or, as in the case of genocide, are offenses against humanity.
- war dance — a dance preliminary to going into battle or in celebration of a victory, as formerly among American Indians.
- 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.
- water cut — The water cut is the ratio of the water which is produced in a well compared to the volume of the total liquids produced.
- water ice — ice formed by direct freezing of fresh or salt water, and not by compacting of snow.
- waterbuck — any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus, frequenting marshes and reedy places, especially K. ellipsiprymnus, of eastern and central Africa.
- waterpick — a portable electric appliance that uses a stream of water under force to remove food particles from between the teeth and to massage the gums.
- wałbrzych — an industrial city in SW Poland. Pop: 176 000 (2005 est)
- webcaster — A person or organization that transmits a webcast over the Internet.
- wehrmacht — the German armed forces of the years prior to and during World War II.
- werowance — (historical) A chief of an American Indian tribe in colonial Virginia and Maryland.
- whipcrack — The crack of a whip.