8-letter words containing w, a
- capework — the use of the cape by the matador
- car wash — a place or structure having special equipment for washing automobiles.
- careware — computer software licensed in exchange for a donation to charity
- careworn — A person who looks careworn looks worried, tired, and unhappy.
- carraway — Alternative form of caraway.
- case law — Case law is law that has been established by following decisions made by judges in earlier cases.
- casework — Casework is social work that involves actually dealing or working with the people who need help.
- caseworm — any of various insect larvae that build protective cases about their bodies
- cash cow — In business, a cash cow is a product or investment that steadily continues to be profitable.
- cashflow — Of or pertaining to a cash flow.
- castaway — A castaway is a person who has managed to swim or float to a lonely island or shore after their boat has sunk.
- cat yawl — a yawl having the mainmast close to the stem and the after mast on the counter.
- catwalks — Plural form of catwalk.
- catwoman — (rare) A woman in a cat costume.
- catworks — the machinery used on a drilling platform
- causeway — A causeway is a raised path or road that crosses water or wet land.
- cawnpore — former name of Kanpur.
- chadwick — Sir Edwin. 1800–90, British social reformer, known for his Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain (1842)
- chainsaw — a motor-driven saw, usually portable, in which the cutting teeth form links in a continuous chain
- chaochow — Chaozhou.
- chawdron — the entrails of an animal
- chewable — Chewable describes drugs that are best or most easily absorbed by chewing.
- chichewa — the language of the Chewa people of central Africa, widely used as a lingua franca in Malawi. It belongs to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family
- chin-wag — to engage in informal or idle conversation; chat or gossip
- chippewa — Ojibwa
- ciswoman — (LGBT) A cisgender woman, a woman who is biologically female.
- cityward — towards a city
- clamworm — any of several burrowing polychaete worms of the genus Nereis, used as bait for fishing.
- claw bar — a crowbar or lever having a bend at one end with a claw for pulling spikes.
- claw off — to avoid the dangers of (a lee shore or other hazard) by beating
- clawback — the recovery of a sum of money, esp by taxation or penalty
- clawfoot — (medicine, uncountable) A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
- clawless — Having no claws.
- clawlike — resembling a claw or claws
- clayware — pottery
- clearway — a stretch of road on which motorists may stop only in an emergency
- cold war — The Cold War was the period of hostility and tension between the Soviet bloc and the Western powers that followed the Second World War.
- coldslaw — coleslaw.
- coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
- colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
- cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- core war — (games) (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
- cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
- cow cake — cow dung.
- cow-tail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
- cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
- cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
- cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.