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9-letter words containing w, a, t

  • brown rat — a common brownish rat, Rattus norvegicus: a serious pest in all parts of the world
  • buckwheat — Buckwheat is a type of small black grain used for feeding animals and making flour. Buckwheat also refers to the flour itself.
  • busy-wait — (programming)   To wait for an event by spinning through a tight loop or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. This is a wasteful technique, best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor.
  • callowest — Superlative form of callow.
  • can't win — If you say that someone can't win in a particular situation, you mean that they are certain to fail or to suffer whatever they do.
  • cape town — the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop: 3 740 026 (2011)
  • cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
  • cast away — to throw or hurl; fling: The gambler cast the dice.
  • cast down — If someone is cast down by something, they are sad or worried because of it.
  • castaways — Plural form of castaway.
  • cat's paw — a person used to serve the purposes of another; tool.
  • cat's-paw — a person used by another as a tool; dupe
  • catchweed — a weedy plant with a prickly stem
  • catchword — A catchword is a word or phrase that becomes popular or well-known, for example, because it is associated with a political campaign.
  • catchwork — A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
  • caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
  • cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
  • chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
  • chat show — A chat show is a television or radio show in which people talk in a friendly, informal way about different topics.
  • chinatown — Chinatown is the name given to the area in a city where there are many Chinese shops and restaurants, and which is a social centre for the Chinese community in the city.
  • claw foot — a foot with claws.
  • coastward — towards the coast
  • coastwise — along the coast
  • coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
  • coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
  • cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
  • craftwork — works of artistry or craft
  • crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
  • croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
  • cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
  • dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
  • darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
  • data flow — (architecture)   A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
  • dataviews — Graphical user interface development software from V.I.Corporation, aimed at constructing platform-independent interactive views of dynamic data.
  • dawnlight — The light of dawn.
  • dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
  • deal with — When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
  • 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.
  • deathblow — a thing or event that destroys life or hope, esp suddenly
  • deathward — having an inclination or disposition towards death
  • debt swap — A debt swap is a legal agreement where two people or companies exchange their debts, often where one has a fixed interest rate and one does not.
  • deepwater — having or taking place in deep water
  • delftware — glazed earthenware, usually blue and white, which originated in Delft
  • dew plant — sundew.
  • dewatered — Simple past tense and past participle of dewater.
  • dewaterer — a person who or a thing which dewaters
  • dirty war — a war conducted by the military or secret police of a regime against revolutionary and terrorist insurgents and marked by the regime's use of kidnapping, torture, and murder, with members of the civilian population often the victims.
  • dishwater — water in which dishes are, or have been, washed.
  • doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
  • down east — New England.
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