9-letter words containing w, e, r, o
- copywrite — (rare) To write the copy (or text) of an advertisement; to have a job as a copywriter.
- corkscrew — A corkscrew is a device for pulling corks out of bottles.
- cornrowed — Simple past tense and past participle of cornrow.
- cow horse — cow pony.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.
- cowardise — Obsolete spelling of cowardice.
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cowkeeper — (archaic) cowherd.
- coworkers — a fellow worker; colleague.
- cowperson — (politically correct, rare) a cowhand of any gender.
- cowritten — to coauthor.
- creamwove — (of wove paper) cream-coloured and even-surfaced
- crestwood — a city in E Missouri.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crosswire — Crosshair; reticle.
- crosswise — Crosswise means diagonally across something.
- crow over — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crowberry — a low-growing N temperate evergreen shrub, Empetrum nigrum, with small purplish flowers and black berry-like fruit: family Empetraceae
- crowdedly — In a crowded manner.
- croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crowsteps — Plural form of crowstep.
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- dayflower — any of various tropical and subtropical plants of the genus Commelina, having jointed creeping stems, narrow pointed leaves, and blue or purplish flowers which wilt quickly: family Commelinaceae
- dayworker — a person who works during the daytime
- death row — If someone is on death row, they are in the part of a prison which contains the cells for criminals who have been sentenced to death.
- demiworld — demimonde (defs 4, 5).
- desk work — work done at a desk.
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dire wolf — an extinct wolf, Canis dirus, widespread in North America during the Pleistocene Epoch, having a larger body and a smaller brain than the modern wolf.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dowerless — Law. the portion of a deceased husband's real property allowed to his widow for her lifetime.
- dowitcher — any of several long-billed, snipelike shore birds of North America and Asia, especially Limnodromus griseus.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- downgrade — a downward slope, especially of a road.
- downrange — (of a missile, space launch, etc.) traveling in a specified direction away from the launch site and toward the target.
- downriver — Toward or situated at a point nearer the mouth of a river.
- downtrend — a downward or decreasing tendency, movement, or shift: a downtrend in gasoline consumption; a downtrend in stock prices.
- dreamwork — the processes that cause the transformation of unconscious thoughts into the content of dreams, as displacement, distortion, condensation, and symbolism.
- earlywood — the light-coloured wood made by a tree in the spring that shows up in the yearly growth ring
- earthwork — excavation and piling of earth in connection with an engineering operation.
- earthworm — any one of numerous annelid worms that burrow in soil and feed on soil nutrients and decaying organic matter.
- earwormed — a tune or part of a song that repeats in one’s mind.
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- edgeworth — Maria, 1767–1849, English novelist.
- eiderdown — Small, soft feathers from the breast of the female eider duck.
- elbowroom — Sufficient space to have freedom of movement.
- elderwort — Danewort.