9-letter words containing w, c, d
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- cool down — If someone cools down or if you cool them down, they become less angry than they were.
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- corkwoods — Plural form of corkwood.
- cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
- cotswolds — a range of low hills in SW England, mainly in Gloucestershire: formerly a centre of the wool industry
- countdown — A countdown is the counting aloud of numbers in reverse order before something happens, especially before a spacecraft is launched.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowhiding — Present participle of cowhide.
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crawdaddy — crawdad.
- crazyweed — locoweed
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- 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.
- 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.
- crowd out — If one thing crowds out another, it is so successful or common that the other thing does not have the opportunity to be successful or exist.
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cusswords — Plural form of cussword.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dairy cow — a cow which is used to produce milk
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dicky bow — a bow tie
- dipswitch — (electronics, computing) A miniature switch designed to be attached to a circuit board to customize the behavior of the circuit.
- doomwatch — surveillance of the environment to warn of and prevent harm to it from human factors such as pollution or overpopulation
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.
- downcycle — a downward course in the business cycle.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downscale — located at, moving toward, or of or for the middle or lower end of a social or economic scale: The discount store caters mainly to downscale customers.
- downticks — Plural form of downtick.
- draw back — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawbacks — Plural form of drawback.
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- duck hawk — a peregrine falcon of the American subspecies Falco peregrinus anatum, noted for its especially swift flight.
- duck-walk — to walk like a duck, as with legs apart and feet turned outward.
- duckwheat — India wheat.
- dump scow — a barge for disposing of garbage, dredged material, etc., having hoppers in the bottom through which such cargo can be dumped.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- face down — Also, face-down. Informal. a direct confrontation; showdown.
- hacksawed — Simple past tense and past participle of hacksaw.
- kick down — vehicle: lower gear
- knockdown — capable of knocking something down; overwhelming; irresistible: a knockdown blow.