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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.
  • hardwickElizabeth, 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
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