11-letter words containing n, w
- contraflows — Plural form of contraflow.
- cooperstown — a town in central New York: location of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.
- copywriting — a writer of copy, especially for advertisements or publicity releases.
- copywronged — copybroke
- cordwainery — Shoemaking.
- corn whisky — whisky made from maize
- cornflowers — Plural form of cornflower.
- cotton swab — A cotton swab is the same as a swab.
- cotton wool — Cotton wool is a soft mass of cotton, used especially for applying liquids or creams to your skin.
- cottonwoods — Plural form of cottonwood.
- counterblow — a retaliatory blow
- counterdraw — to copy (a painting, etc) by tracing it onto a transparent material, such as oiled paper
- counterflow — the flowing of two fluids in opposite directions in adjacent parts of an apparatus
- counterglow — gegenschein.
- counterview — an opposite or opposing view
- counterword — a word widely used in a sense much looser than its original meaning, such as tremendous or awful
- counterwork — work done in opposition to other work
- countrywide — Something that happens or exists countrywide happens or exists throughout the whole of a particular country.
- county town — A county town is the most important town in a county, where the local government is.
- cow country — a region of cattle ranches, as rural areas of the southwestern U.S., especially Texas.
- cow parsnip — any tall coarse umbelliferous plant of the genus Heracleum, such as H. sphondylium of Europe and Asia, having thick stems and flattened clusters of white or purple flowers
- cow-spanker — a dairy farmer
- cowansville — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada.
- cowpunchers — Plural form of cowpuncher.
- craftswoman — A craftswoman is a woman who makes things skilfully with her hands.
- craftswomen — Plural form of craftswoman.
- crimean war — the war fought mainly in the Crimea between Russia on one side and Turkey, France, Sardinia, and Britain on the other (1853-56)
- cromwellian — of, relating to, or characteristic of the politics, practices, etc., of Oliver Cromwell or of the Commonwealth and Protectorate.
- crossbowman — (in medieval warfare) a soldier armed with a crossbow.
- crossbowmen — Plural form of crossbowman.
- crow's nest — On a ship, the crow's nest is a small platform high up on the mast, where a person can go to look in all directions.
- crow's-nest — Nautical. a platform or shelter for a lookout at or near the top of a mast.
- crowd scene — (in a film, play, or television programme) a scene in which a crowd appears
- crowdedness — The state or quality of being crowded.
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crown agent — a member of a board appointed by the Minister for Overseas Development to provide financial, commercial, and professional services for a number of overseas governments and international bodies
- crown block — A crown block is a fixed set of sheaves (= pulleys) at the top of a derrick, over which the drilling line is run.
- crown court — In England and Wales, a Crown Court is a court in which criminal cases are tried by a judge and jury rather than by a magistrate.
- crown daisy — a garden plant, Chrysanthemum coronarium, of the composite family, native to southern Europe, having numerous yellowish-white flower heads.
- crown derby — a type of porcelain manufactured at Derby from 1784–1848
- crown ether — a type of cyclic ether consisting of a ring of carbon and oxygen atoms, with two or more carbon atoms between each oxygen atom
- crown glass — an old form of window glass made by blowing a globe and spinning it until it formed a flat disc
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- crown green — a type of bowling green in which the sides are lower than the middle
- crown jewel — The Crown Jewels are the crown, sceptre, and other precious objects which are used on important official occasions by the King or Queen.
- crown point — town in NE N.Y., on Lake Champlain: site of a fort important in the French and Indian & the Revolutionary wars: pop. 2,100
- crown roast — a roast consisting of ribs of lamb or pork arranged in a crown shape
- crown vetch — a trailing leguminous European plant, Coronilla varia, with clusters of white or pink flowers: cultivated in North America as a border plant
- crown wheel — the wheel next to the winding knob that has one set of teeth at right angles to the other
- crownpieces — Plural form of crownpiece.