9-letter words containing l, w
- builddown — a planned numerical reduction, esp of nuclear weapons where, for every new weapon built, two or more older weapons are destroyed
- bullwaddy — a N Australian tree, Macropteranthes kekwickii, growing in dense thickets
- bullwhack — to flog with a short whip
- butt weld — a welded butt joint
- cableways — Plural form of cableway.
- cakewalks — Plural form of cakewalk.
- call down — to request or invoke
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- callowest — Superlative form of callow.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cam wheel — a wheel, with an off-center axis or irregular shape, that functions as a cam.
- candlewax — The wax of a candle.
- canon law — Canon law is the law of the Christian church. It has authority only for that church and its members.
- cartwheel — If you do a cartwheel, you do a fast, circular movement with your body. You fall sideways, put your hands on the ground, swing your legs over, and return to a standing position.
- cash flow — The cash flow of a firm or business is the movement of money into and out of it.
- caterwaul — If a person or animal caterwauls, they make a loud, high, unpleasant noise like the noise that cats make when they fight.
- cell wall — the outer layer of a cell, esp the structure in plant cells that consists of cellulose, lignin, etc, and gives mechanical support to the cell
- cellarway — the entrance leading into a cellar
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- chow hall — canteen, refectory
- civil law — Civil law is the part of a country's set of laws which is concerned with the private affairs of citizens, for example marriage and property ownership, rather than with crime.
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- classwork — school assignments done in the classroom
- claw back — If someone claws back some of the money or power they had lost, they get some of it back again.
- claw foot — a foot with claws.
- clawbacks — Plural form of clawback.
- 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
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- clockwise — When something is moving clockwise, it is moving in a circle in the same direction as the hands on a clock.
- clockwork — A clockwork toy or device has machinery inside it which makes it move or operate when it is wound up with a key.
- 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.
- clownfish — any of several brightly coloured striped fish of the subfamily Amphiprioninae of the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- clownlike — Resembling a clown or some aspect of clowns.
- clubwoman — a woman who is an enthusiastic member of a club or clubs
- clubwomen — Plural form of clubwoman.
- 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.
- 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 work — the craft of shaping metal without heat
- cold-brew — (of a drink such as tea or coffee) prepared by steeping in cold water
- cold-draw — to draw (wire, tubing, etc.) without preheating the metal.
- cold-weld — to join (two metal surfaces) without heat by forcing them together so that the oxide films are broken and adhesion occurs