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9-letter words containing w, c, d

  • lancewood — the tough, elastic wood of any of various trees, especially Oxandra lanceolata, of tropical America, used for carriage shafts, cabinetwork, etc.
  • leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
  • lock down — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • lockdowns — Plural form of lockdown.
  • locoweeds — Plural form of locoweed.
  • macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
  • matchwood — wood suitable for match.
  • midwicket — (cricket) a fielding position, about 40° forward of square on the leg side, between square leg and mid on.
  • neckdowns — Plural form of neckdown.
  • oceanward — Toward the ocean.
  • overcrowd — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.
  • prickwood — the dense wood of the spindle tree, used for making skewers
  • quickdraw — (climbing) A set of two carabiners connected by a strap.
  • scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
  • screwhead — the head or top of a screw having a slot for the end of a screwdriver.
  • scrubdown — an act or instance of scrubbing, especially a thorough washing of a surface or object: The decks of the ship get a scrubdown every morning.
  • scrumdown — the forming of a scrum in rugby
  • show card — an advertising placard or card.
  • showcased — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
  • smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
  • snow-clad — covered with snow.
  • spaceward — going into space
  • spicewood — spicebush (def 1).
  • stickweed — the ragweed.
  • stockwood — (Arthur) Mervyn. 1913–95, British Anglican prelate; bishop of Southwark (1959–80)
  • tack-weld — to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.
  • the crowd — the common people; the masses
  • torchwood — any of various resinous woods suitable for making torches, as the wood of the tree Amyris balsamifera, of the rue family, native to Florida and the West Indies.
  • touchdown — Football. an act or instance of scoring six points by being in possession of the ball on or behind the opponent's goal line.
  • touchwood — wood converted into an easily ignitible substance by the action of certain fungi, and used as tinder; punk.
  • two-faced — having two faces.
  • uncrowded — filled to excess; packed.
  • uncrowned — not crowned; not having yet assumed the crown.
  • unwatched — to be alertly on the lookout, look attentively, or observe, as to see what comes, is done, or happens: to watch while an experiment is performed.
  • war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
  • war dance — a dance preliminary to going into battle or in celebration of a victory, as formerly among American Indians.
  • watchband — a leather, metal, fabric, or plastic bracelet or strap attached to a wrist watch to hold it on the wrist.
  • watchword — a word or short phrase to be communicated, on challenge, to a sentinel or guard; password or countersign.
  • weedicide — A chemical weedkiller.
  • whickered — Simple past tense and past participle of whicker.
  • whipcordy — resembling a whipcord
  • wickedest — evil or morally bad in principle or practice; sinful; iniquitous: wicked people; wicked habits.
  • wide scsi — (hardware, standard)   A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. It supports transfer rates up to 20 MB/s, like Fast SCSI. There is also a SCSI-2 definition of Wide-SCSI with a 32 bit data bus. This allows up to 40 megabytes per second but is very rarely used because it requires a large number of wires (118 wires on two connectors). Thus Wide SCSI usually means 16 bit-wide SCSI.
  • wild card — card game: substitute card
  • wild rice — a tall aquatic grass, Zizania aquatica, of northeastern North America.
  • wild-card — of, constituting, or including a wild card.
  • wildcards — Plural form of wildcard.
  • wildcraft — The harvesting of wild plants to sell or make into saleable products.
  • wind cone — windsock.
  • windchest — a chamber containing the air supply for the reeds or pipes of an organ.
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