9-letter words containing w, r, e, c
- crew neck — A crew neck or a crew neck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crew pram — concurrent read, exclusive write PRAM.
- crew sock — Usually, crew socks. short, thick casual socks usually ribbed above the ankles.
- crewmates — Plural form of crewmate.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crimeware — (computing) Software that performs or facilitates illegal activities.
- crimewave — a period of increased criminal activity
- 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.
- cruiseway — a canal used for recreational purposes
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- cutwaters — Plural form of cutwater.
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- 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
- drawbench — a bench having apparatus for cold-drawing wires, tubes, etc.
- eachwhere — all over or in every place
- echo word — a word that is echoic (sense 2), or onomatopoeic
- escrowing — Present participle of escrow.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- film crew — a group of people who are involved in the practical and technical business of shooting a film
- fire crew — team of fire fighters
- graywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- greenwich — a borough in SE London, England: located on the prime meridian from which geographic longitude is measured; formerly the site of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
- greywacke — Geology. a dark-gray coarse-grained wacke.
- ice screw — a screwed tubular or solid steel rod with a ring at one end for inserting into ice as an anchor point
- ice water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- ice-water — water chilled with or as if with ice.
- in escrow — a contract, deed, bond, or other written agreement deposited with a third person, by whom it is to be delivered to the grantee or promisee on the fulfillment of some condition.
- jackscrew — a jack for lifting, consisting of a screw steadied by a threaded support and carrying a plate or other part bearing the load.
- lag screw — type of threaded bolt
- lag-screw — to fasten with a lag screw.
- law clerk — an attorney, usually a recent law-school graduate, working as an assistant to a judge or being trained by another attorney.
- leadscrew — A screw designed to translate turning motion into linear motion.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- lug screw — a small screw without a head
- microbrew — beer brewed in a microbrewery.
- microwave — an electromagnetic wave of extremely high frequency, 1 GH 3 or more, and having wavelengths of from 1 mm to 30 cm.
- microwire — A very small diameter wire, especially one with a glass coating.
- newcomers — Plural form of newcomer.
- oceanward — Toward the ocean.
- overcrowd — Fill (accommodations or a space) beyond what is usual or comfortable.