10-letter words containing w, e
- cheesewire — a piece of wire used for cutting cheese
- cheesewood — the tough yellowish wood of Australian trees of the genus Pittosporum: family Pittosporaceae
- chief town — a town or city that is the administrative centre of a region
- chief whip — the highest-ranking or principal whip in a legislature or parliamaent
- child wife — a very young wife.
- china-ware — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
- chinawares — dishes, ornaments, etc., made of china.
- chinwagged — Simple past tense and past participle of chinwag.
- choke down — to swallow with difficulty
- chwang-tse — Chuang-tzu (def 1).
- clausewitz — Karl von (karl fɔn). 1780–1831, Prussian general, noted for his works on military strategy, esp Vom Kriege (1833)
- clawhammer — denoting a style of plucking the strings of a banjo in which the hand forms a clawlike shape
- clean wool — wool that has been scoured to remove wax
- clear away — When you clear things away or clear away, you put away the things that you have been using, especially for eating or cooking.
- clearwater — city in WC Fla., on the Gulf of Mexico: suburb of St. Petersburg: pop. 109,000
- clearwings — Plural form of clearwing.
- clew lines — the ropes connecting the clews of a sail with the yard, used in raising or lowering the sail
- close down — to cease or cause to cease operations
- close with — to engage in battle with an enemy
- close work — work that involves focusing your eyes on a nearby object, such as a book or computer screen, for a prolonged period of time
- closedowns — Plural form of closedown.
- club wheat — a wheat, Triticum compactum, characterized by compact, club-shaped spikes, used for making pastry flour and the like.
- cobwebbery — the texture of cobwebs
- cobweblike — Resembling or characteristic of a cobweb.
- cobwebsite — (jargon, web) A website that hasn't been updated for a long time. A dead web page.
- cockwomble — (UK,slang,derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- codeswitch — Alternative form of code-switch.
- codewalker — (programming, tool) A program component that analyses other programs. Compilers have codewalkers in their front ends; so do cross-reference generators and some database front ends. Other utility programs that try to do too much with source code may turn into codewalkers. As in "This new 'vgrind' feature would require a codewalker to implement."
- cold sweat — If you are in a cold sweat, you are sweating and feel cold, usually because you are very afraid or nervous.
- cold-water — designating a room, apartment, etc. that is not provided with hot water or, sometimes, a bathroom
- commonweal — the good of the community
- coneflower — any North American plant of the genera Rudbeckia, Ratibida, and Echinacea, which have rayed flowers with a conelike centre: family Asteraceae (composites)
- copperware — Articles made from copper.
- copperwork — a place where copper is worked
- copperworm — a shipworm, Teredo navalis
- copywriter — A copywriter is a person whose job is to write the words for advertisements.
- cordwainer — a shoemaker or worker in cordovan leather
- corkscrews — Plural form of corkscrew.
- corkscrewy — Resembling the worm of a corkscrew in shape.
- cornerwise — with a corner in front; diagonally
- cornflower — Cornflowers are small plants with flowers that are usually blue.
- cosmic web — a network of filaments of dark matter, believed by many astronomers to form the basis of the universe
- cottonweed — a downy perennial plant, Otanthus maritimus, of European coastal regions, having small yellow flowers surrounded by large hairy bracts: family Asteraceae (composites)
- counterwar — War waged in response to another war.
- countywide — Occurring or extending throughout a county.
- courseware — computer software designed to be used in an educational course
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- cow killer — a large velvet ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis) of the S and E U.S.: the wingless female has a powerful sting
- cowardness — Synonym of cowardice.
- cowberries — Plural form of cowberry.