11-letter words containing w, c
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- county town — A county town is the most important town in a county, where the local government is.
- course work — Course work is work that students do during a course, rather than in exams, especially work that counts towards a student's final grade.
- cow college — an agricultural college
- cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
- cow parsley — a common Eurasian umbelliferous hedgerow plant, Anthriscus sylvestris, having umbrella-shaped clusters of white flowers
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowardliest — Superlative form of cowardly.
- cowboy boot — a boot having a thick, angled heel of medium height and, usually, a pointed toe and ornamental stitching, tooling, etc.: traditionally worn by American cowboys
- cowcatchers — Plural form of cowcatcher.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- crackleware — porcelain or pottery decorated with intentional crazing in the glaze
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crashworthy — (of a vehicle) Capable of withstanding a crash.
- crawl space — A crawl space is a narrow space under the roof or floor of a building that provides access to the wiring or plumbing.
- credit swap — A credit swap is a kind of insurance against credit risk where a third party agrees to pay a lender if the loan defaults, in exchange for receiving payments from the lender.
- crewmembers — Plural form of crewmember.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- crippleware — a computer program whose functionality has been deliberately limited, thus forcing the user to purchase additional software
- crochetwork — needlework done by crocheting.
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- cross swell — a movement of the sea at right angles to a major current
- cross wires — cross hair (def 1).
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-foot — a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowberries — Plural form of crowberry.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowded out — full to capacity; full to bursting
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowder pea — any variety of cowpea bearing pods with closely spaced seeds.
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crowdsource — to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- crown green — a type of bowling green in which the sides are lower than the middle