8-letter words containing c, r, a, w
- crawdads — Plural form of crawdad.
- crawfish — A crawfish is a small shellfish with five pairs of legs which lives in rivers and streams. You can eat some types of crawfish.
- crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
- crawlers — a baby's overalls; rompers
- crawlies — Fear, anxiety.
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crawlway — a low passageway in a cave or mine that can only be negotiated by crawling
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crew cab — A crew cab is a cab in a vehicle such as a fire engine that has been extended with a second row of seats to carry additional crew.
- crewmate — a colleague on the crew of a boat or ship
- crossway — a junction
- crowbait — an emaciated, worn-out horse or cow.
- crowbars — Plural form of crowbar.
- crudware — /kruhd'weir/ Pejorative term for the hundreds of megabytes of low-quality freeware circulated by user's groups and BBSs in the micro-hobbyist world.
- curassow — any gallinaceous ground-nesting bird of the family Cracidae, of S North, Central, and South America. Curassows have long legs and tails and, typically, a distinctive crest of curled feathers
- cutwater — the forward part of the stem of a vessel, which cuts through the water
- cyberwar — The use of computers to disrupt the activities of an enemy country, especially the deliberate attacking of communication systems.
- dec wars — A 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr spoofing the "Star Wars" movies in hackish terms. Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "Unix WARS"; the two are often confused.
- drawback — a hindrance or disadvantage; an undesirable or objectionable feature.
- drawcard — drawing card.
- eat crow — any of several large oscine birds of the genus Corvus, of the family Corvidae, having a long, stout bill, lustrous black plumage, and a wedge-shaped tail, as the common C. brachyrhynchos, of North America.
- eelwrack — eelgrass
- faceward — Toward the face.
- facework — The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
- hackwork — writing, painting, or any professional work done for hire and usually following a formula rather than being motivated by any creative impulse.
- hardwick — Elizabeth, 1916–2007, U.S. novelist and critic.
- lacework — lace (def 1).
- lawcourt — a court of law
- lawrence — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- low-carb — containing few or fewer carbohydrates: a low-carb diet.
- micawber — a person who idles and trusts to fortune
- neckwear — articles of dress worn round or at the neck.
- outcrawl — to crawl further than or faster than
- racewalk — to race by walking fast rather than running
- raceways — Plural form of raceway.
- rack saw — a wide-toothed saw
- rackwork — a mechanism utilizing a rack, as a rack and pinion.
- randwick — a city in E New South Wales, SE Australia, on Botany Bay and the Pacific Ocean: a suburb of Sydney.
- rickshaw — jinrikisha.
- rockaway — a light, four-wheeled carriage having two or three seats and a fixed top.
- row back — If you row back on something you have said or written, you express a different or contrary opinion about it.
- schwartz — Delmore [del-mawr,, -mohr] /ˈdɛl mɔr,, -moʊr/ (Show IPA), 1913–1966, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.
- scrawled — to write or draw in a sprawling, awkward manner: He scrawled his name hastily across the blackboard.
- scrawler — a person who scrawls.
- screwage — /skroo'*j/ Like lossage but connotes that the failure is due to a designed-in misfeature rather than a simple inadequacy or a mere bug.
- spacewar — (games) A space-combat simulation game for the PDP-1 written in 1960-61 by Steve Russell, an employee at MIT. SPACEWAR was inspired by E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensman" books, in which two spaceships duel around a central sun, shooting torpedoes at each other and jumping through hyperspace. MIT were wondering what to do with a new vector video display so Steve wrote the world's first video game. Steve now lives in California and still writes software for HC12 emulators. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of the early hacker culture at MIT. Nine years later, a descendant of the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became Unix. Less than nine years after that, SPACEWAR was commercialised as one of the first video games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
- town car — an automobile having an enclosed rear seat separated by a glass partition from the open driver's seat.
- trackway — railway (def 3).
- warcraft — The art or skill of conducting a war.
- wardcorn — a payment of corn in the feudal law system