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8-letter words containing w

  • coldwork — The elimination of flaws and rough or sharp areas on the surface of blown or cast glass objects; usually achieved by some combination of grinding and polishing.
  • coleslaw — Coleslaw is a salad of chopped raw cabbage, carrots, onions, and sometimes other vegetables, usually with mayonnaise.
  • colewort — cole
  • colorway — (arts) The scheme of two or more colors in which a design is available. It is often used to describe variegated or ombre (shades of one color) print yarns, fabric, or thread. It can also be applied to apparel, to wallpaper and other interior design motifs, and to specifications for printed materials such as magazines or newspapers.
  • coltwood — a plant mentioned in Spenser's Faerie Queene, perhaps having a hairy stalk
  • combwise — in the manner of a comb
  • comedown — If you say that something is a comedown, you think that it is not as good as something else that you have just done or had.
  • cookware — Cookware is the range of pans and pots which are used in cooking.
  • cooldown — a series of gentle stretching exercises conducted after strenuous activity in order to allow the heart rate to gradually return to normal
  • cordwain — cordovan leather
  • cordwood — wood that has been cut into lengths of four feet so that it can be stacked in cords
  • core war — (games)   (Or more recently, "Core Wars") A game played between assembly code programs running in the core of a simulated machine (and vicariously by their authors). The objective is to kill your opponents' programs by overwriting them. The programs are written using an instruction set called "Redcode" and run on a virtual machine called "MARS" (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). Core War was devised by Victor Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and Dennis Ritchie in the early 1960s (their original game was called "Darwin" and ran on a PDP-1 at Bell Labs). It was first described in the "Core War Guidelines" of March, 1984 by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer Recreations" articles in "Scientific American" which discussed Core War, starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in the two anthologies cited below. A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer current. The International Core War Society (ICWS) creates and maintains Core War standards and the runs Core War tournaments. There have been six annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88).
  • corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
  • corkwood — a small tree, Leitneria floridana, of the southeastern US, having very lightweight porous wood: family Leitneriaceae
  • corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.
  • corn row — a Black, originally African, hair-style in which the hair is plaited in close parallel rows, resembling furrows in a ploughed field
  • cornrows — A style of braiding and plaiting the hair in narrow strips to form geometric patterns on the scalp.
  • cornwall — a former administrative county of SW England; became a unitary authority in 2009: hilly, with a deeply indented coastline. Administrative centre: Truro. Pop: 513 500 (2003 est). Area: 3564 sq km (1376 sq miles)
  • cornwell — Patricia D(aniels). born 1956, US crime novelist; her novels, many of which feature the pathologist Dr Kay Scarpetta, include Postmortem (1990), The Last Precinct (2000), and Isle of Dogs (2002)
  • cornworm — a cornmoth larva
  • cotswold — a breed of sheep with long wool that originated in the Cotswolds. It is believed to be one of the oldest breeds in the world
  • cow cake — cow dung.
  • cow dung — cow manure
  • cow flop — cow dung.
  • cow lily — spatterdock.
  • cow pony — a horse used by cowboys when herding
  • cow town — If someone describes a town as a cow town, they mean that it is small, dull, and old-fashioned.
  • cow-tail — a coarse wool of poor quality.
  • cowalker — A phantom or astral body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelganger.
  • cowardly — If you describe someone as cowardly, you disapprove of them because they are easily frightened and avoid doing dangerous and difficult things.
  • cowardry — Lb uncommon Cowardice.
  • cowbells — Plural form of cowbell.
  • cowberry — a creeping ericaceous evergreen shrub, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, of N temperate and arctic regions, with pink or red flowers and edible slightly acid berries
  • cowbirds — Plural form of cowbird.
  • cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
  • cowgirls — Plural form of cowgirl.
  • cowgrass — the common name for Trefolium medium, a species of Trefoil; also applied to the commonly cultivated form of red clover
  • cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
  • cowherds — Plural form of cowherd.
  • cowhides — Plural form of cowhide.
  • cowhouse — a shelter for cows; a byre or cowshed
  • cowinner — one of a number of winners
  • cowlicks — Plural form of cowlick.
  • cowlings — Plural form of cowling.
  • cowlneck — a style of neckline for a woman's garment having material draped in rounded folds.
  • coworker — Your coworkers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
  • cowpokes — Plural form of cowpoke.
  • cowriter — a writer who works in collaboration with another writer
  • cowsheds — Plural form of cowshed.
  • cowslips — Plural form of cowslip.
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