8-letter words containing n, w
- cordwain — cordovan leather
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corn law — any of the laws regulating domestic and foreign trading of grain, the last of which was repealed in 1846.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
- cow dung — cow manure
- 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.
- cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cowhands — Plural form of cowhand.
- cowinner — one of a number of winners
- cowlings — Plural form of cowling.
- cowlneck — a style of neckline for a woman's garment having material draped in rounded folds.
- coxswain — The coxswain of a lifeboat or other small boat is the person who steers the boat.
- cramdown — (legal) A court settlement in bankruptcy in which creditors receive less than they were owed.
- cranwell — a village in E England, in Lincolnshire: Royal Air Force College (1920)
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- crenshaw — a hybrid variety of melon with yellow skin and pale pink flesh
- crewneck — A crewneck or a crewneck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crowd in — If problems or thoughts crowd in on you, a lot of them happen to you or affect you at the same time, so that they occupy all your attention and make you feel unable to escape.
- crowding — a large number of persons gathered closely together; throng: a crowd of angry people.
- crowners — Plural form of crowner.
- crownets — Plural form of crownet.
- crowning — the stage of labour when the infant's head is passing through the vaginal opening
- crownlet — a small crown
- cry down — to belittle; disparage
- cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cynewulf — ?8th century ad, Anglo-Saxon poet; author of Juliana, The Ascension, Elene, and The Fates of the Apostles
- daneweed — an alternative name for a danewort
- danewort — a caprifoliaceous shrub, Sambucus ebulus, native to Europe and Asia and having serrated leaves and white flowers
- darktown — a part of a town or city inhabited largely by blacks.
- dawdling — proceeding at a slow pace
- dawnings — Plural form of dawning.
- dawnlike — the first appearance of daylight in the morning: Dawn broke over the valley.
- dew line — distant early warning line, a network of radar stations situated mainly in Arctic regions to give early warning of aircraft or missile attack on North America
- dew pond — a shallow pond, usually man-made, that is kept supplied with water by dew and condensation
- dewiness — The state or quality of being dewy.
- dewpoint — temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- die down — If something dies down, it becomes very much quieter or less intense.
- discrown — to deprive of a crown; dethrone; depose.
- disendow — to deprive (a church, school, etc.) of endowment.
- disowned — Simple past tense and past participle of disown.
- doweling — Also called dowel pin. Carpentry. a pin, usually round, fitting into holes in two adjacent pieces to prevent their slipping or to align them.
- dowering — Present participle of dower.
- dowfness — the quality or characteristic of being dowf
- down low — of or pertaining to men who secretly or discreetly have sex with other men: She once dated a down-low guy.
- down-bow — (in bowing on a stringed instrument) a stroke bringing the tip of the bow toward the strings, indicated in scores by the symbol (opposed to up-bow).