9-letter words containing w, e
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- cetshwayo — ?1826–84, king of the Zulus (1873–79): defeated the British at Isandhlwana (1879) but was overwhelmed by them at Ulundi (1879); captured, he stated his case in London, and was reinstated as ruler of part of Zululand (1883)
- chafeweed — wood cudweed.
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chengchow — Zhengzhou
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chewiness — the condition of necessitating chewing or of being difficult to chew
- chickweed — Chickweed is a plant with small leaves and white flowers which grows close to the ground.
- chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
- chipewyan — a member of a North American Indian people of NW Canada
- chippeway — Chippewa.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- chow mein — Chow mein is a Chinese-style dish that consists of fried noodles, cooked meat, and vegetables.
- clearways — Plural form of clearway.
- clearweed — a plant from the nettle family
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clerihews — Plural form of clerihew.
- clew line — any of several lines fastened to the clews of a square sail and used for furling it
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- closedown — a termination or suspension of operations; shutdown: a temporary closedown of a factory.
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clownlike — Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- co-winner — one of two or more joint winners.
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- coastwise — along the coast
- cobwebbed — A cobwebbed surface is covered with cobwebs.
- code walk — (programming) Stepping through source code as part of a code review. Where a code walk probably only follows the potential control flow of a program, a dry run is a more detailed manual execution of a program that also keeps track of the value of every variable involved.
- code word — A code word is a word or phrase that has a special meaning, different from its normal meaning, for the people who have agreed to use it in this way.
- codewords — Plural form of codeword.
- cogwheels — Plural form of cogwheel.
- cold brew — the process of steeping coffee grounds or tea leaves in room-temperature or cold water for many hours, producing a concentrate to which more water may be added.
- cold wave — a sudden spell of low temperatures over a wide area, often following the passage of a cold front
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-weld — to join (two metal surfaces) without heat by forcing them together so that the oxide films are broken and adhesion occurs
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- coleslaws — Plural form of coleslaw.
- colicweed — any of several plants of the genera Dicentra or Corydalis, such as the squirrel corn and Dutchman's-breeches: family Fumariaceae
- come away — to become detached
- come down — If the cost, level, or amount of something comes down, it becomes less than it was before.
- comedowns — Plural form of comedown.
- copsewood — the smallest trees, and the bushes and ferns, of a coppice
- 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.
- cow vetch — a climbing plant, Vicia cracca, of the legume family, of Eurasia and North America, having elongated clusters of violet-purple flowers.
- cowardice — Cowardice is cowardly behaviour.