9-letter words containing w, c, o, a
- lock away — put in prison
- low-class — vulgar, coarse, or undignified
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- macdowell — Edward Alexander, 1861–1908, U.S. composer and pianist.
- manitowoc — a port in E Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan.
- matchwood — wood suitable for match.
- matholwch — a legendary king of Ireland and the husband of Branwen.
- microwatt — a unit of power equal to one millionth of a watt. Symbol: μW, μ w.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- overwatch — to watch over.
- patchwork — something made up of an incongruous variety of pieces or parts; hodgepodge: a patchwork of verse forms.
- peachblow — a delicate purplish pink.
- plow back — an agricultural implement used for cutting, lifting, turning over, and partly pulverizing soil.
- 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.
- prowl car — squad car.
- 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
- scaledown — a reduction in size, quantity, or activity according to a fixed scale or proportion: a scaledown of military expenditures.
- 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.
- scots law — the body of law in force in Scotland
- shockwave — (tool) A program from Macromedia for viewing files created with Macromedia Director. Shockwave is freely available as a plug-in for the Netscape Navigator web browser. "Shocked" pages that incorporate documents created in Director can usually only be enjoyed by users with an ISDN or faster connection.
- show card — an advertising placard or card.
- showcased — a glass case for the display and protection of articles in shops, museums, etc.
- showmance — a romance between two stars that only lasts for the run of the show
- showplace — an estate, mansion, or the like, usually open to the public, renowned for its beauty, excellent design and workmanship, historical interest, etc.
- slowcoach — a slowpoke.
- smackdown — a severe rebuke or criticism: his amazing smackdown of the protesters.
- snow crab — an edible spider crab of the North Pacific, Chionoecetes opilio, commercially important as a frozen seafood product.
- snow-clad — covered with snow.
- snowscape — landscape covered with snow.
- sock away — to strike or hit hard.
- stopwatch — a watch with a hand or hands that can be stopped or started at any instant, used for precise timing, as in races.
- throwback — an act of throwing back.
- top whack — the maximum price
- townscape — a scene or view, either pictorial or natural, of a town or city.
- two-a-cat — two old cat.
- two-faced — having two faces.
- 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.
- wainscots — Plural form of wainscot.
- waistcoat — Chiefly British. vest (def 1).
- wall rock — the rock forming the walls of a vein.
- war cloud — something that threatens war; a harbinger of conflict.
- warlockry — witchcraft
- washcloth — a small cloth for washing one's face or body.
- watch for — be vigilant for, careful of
- watch out — 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.
- watchouts — the act of looking out for or anticipating something; lookout: Keep a watchout for dishonest behavior.