8-letter words containing w, c, r
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowfoot — any of several plants of the genus Ranunculus, such as R. sceleratus and R. aquatilis (water crowfoot) that have yellow or white flowers and divided leaves resembling the foot of a crow
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- crownlet — a small crown
- crowstep — corbiestep.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cry wolf — If someone cries wolf, they say that there is a problem when there is not, with the result that people do not believe them when there really is a problem.
- cudworth — Ralph. 1617–88, English philosopher and theologian. His works include True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731)
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cussword — a swearword
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cutworms — Plural form of cutworm.
- cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- decwrite — DEC's CDA-based, WYSIWYG document processing application. It can generate and import SGML marked-up documents.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- doctorow — E(dgar) L(aurence) born 1931, U.S. author and editor.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawcard — drawing card.
- ductwork — a system of ducts used for a particular purpose, as in a ventilation or heating system.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- eschewer — One who eschews.
- escrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of escrow.
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- fencerow — the uncultivated land on each side of and below a fence.
- forcetwo — An unofficial successor to ForceOne by Andrew K. Wright.
- gun crew — the sailors and petty officers in charge of a gun on a ship.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- herdwick — a hardy breed of coarse-woolled sheep from NW England
- in-crowd — in-group (def 1).
- inchworm — measuringworm.
- jim crow — racial segregation
- jim-crow — favoring or supporting Jim Crow.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- muckworm — (not in technical use) the larva of any of several insects, as the dung beetle, which lives in or beneath manure.
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- new-rich — newly or suddenly wealthy.
- newcomer — a person or thing that has recently arrived; new arrival: She is a newcomer to our city. The firm is a newcomer in the field of advertising.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- outcrowd — to crowd out or exclude