6-letter words containing w
- cowpea — a leguminous tropical climbing plant, Vigna sinensis, producing long pods containing edible pealike seeds: grown for animal fodder and sometimes as human food
- cowper — William. 1731–1800, English poet, noted for his nature poetry, such as in The Task (1785), and his hymns
- cowpie — A cowpie is a pile of feces from a cow.
- cowpox — a contagious viral disease of cows characterized by vesicles on the skin, esp on the teats and udder. Inoculation of humans with this virus provides temporary immunity to smallpox. It can be transmitted to other species, esp cats
- cowrie — any marine gastropod mollusc of the mostly tropical family Cypraeidae, having a glossy brightly marked shell with an elongated opening
- cowsel — COntrolled Working SpacE Language. Burstall and Popplestone, U Edinburgh, 1964-66. LISP-like semantics with FORTH-like stack, and reverse Polish syntax. Forerunner of POP. EPU-R-12, U Edinburgh (Apr 1966).
- cracow — an industrial city in S Poland, on the River Vistula: former capital of the country (1320–1609); university (1364). Pop: 822 000 (2005 est)
- crakow — poulaine.
- crawls — Plural form of crawl.
- crawly — feeling or causing a sensation like creatures crawling on one's skin
- crewed — (especially of an aircraft, ship, or spacecraft) operated by a crew on board.
- crewel — a loosely twisted worsted yarn, used in fancy work and embroidery
- crowds — Plural form of crowd.
- crowdy — a dish of meal, especially oatmeal and water, or sometimes milk, stirred together; gruel; brose; porridge.
- crowea — an Australian shrub of the genus Crowea, having pink flowers
- crowed — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crower — to utter the characteristic cry of a rooster.
- crowne — Obsolete spelling of crown.
- crowns — Plural form of crown.
- curfew — A curfew is a law stating that people must stay inside their houses after a particular time at night, for example during a war.
- curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
- curnow — (Thomas) Allen (Monro). 1911–2001, New Zealand poet and anthologist
- cushaw — a variety of crookneck squash (Cucurbita moschata) similar to the pumpkin
- cywydd — a form of meter in Welsh poetry consisting of rhyming couplets, each line having seven syllables: first used in the 14th century.
- darrow — Clarence (Seward)1857-1938; U.S. lawyer
- darwin — a port in N Australia, capital of the Northern Territory: destroyed by a cyclone in 1974 but rebuilt on the same site. Pop: 129 062 (2011)
- dawdle — If you dawdle, you spend more time than is necessary going somewhere.
- dawing — Present participle of daw.
- dawned — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dawney — (of a person) dull or slow; listless
- dawson — a town in NW Canada, in the Yukon on the Yukon River: a boom town during the Klondike gold rush (at its height in 1899). Pop: 1251 (2001)
- dawted — Simple past tense and past participle of dawt.
- de wet — Christian Rudolf. 1854–1922, Afrikaner military commander and politician, who led the Orange Free State army in the second Boer War (1899–1902). He was imprisoned for treason (1914) after organizing an Afrikaner nationalist rebellion
- deawie — damp with dew
- declaw — to remove the claws from (an animal or bird)
- decrew — to become less or weaker
- deskew — (transitive, computing) To rotate a scanned image to compensate for skewing.
- dewali — Diwali.
- dewani — the office or post of dewan
- dewier — Comparative form of dewy.
- dewily — In a dewy manner.
- dewing — Present participle of dew.
- dewitt — to hang unlawfully; to lynch
- dewlap — a loose fold of skin hanging from beneath the throat in cattle, dogs, etc
- dewool — to remove wool from
- deworm — to rid or free of worms
- dimwit — a stupid or slow-thinking person.
- disown — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- diwali — the Hindu festival of lights, celebrated as a religious holiday throughout India in mid-November.
- dogcow — /dog'kow/ See Moof.