9-letter words containing n, w
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- crew neck — A crew neck or a crew neck sweater is a sweater with a round neck.
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crosswind — A crosswind is a strong wind that blows across the direction that vehicles, boats, or aircraft are travelling in, and that makes it difficult for them to keep moving steadily forward.
- crowdfund — To fund (a project) by having many individuals pool their money together, usually via the Internet.
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- crown law — criminal law
- crown rot — a disease of plants, characterized by the rotting of the stem at ground level, caused by any of several fungi.
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownings — Plural form of crowning.
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- crownless — Without a crown.
- crownwork — the manufacture of artificial crowns for teeth
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- cyberwand — (hardware, virtual reality) A virtual reality controller. The CyberWand costs $99, or $765 with optional Polhemus sensor. It is basically the handle of a flight control system without the base. The controller's four buttons and 2-D hat sensor track six degrees of movement.
- damn well — the damned, those condemned to suffer eternal punishment.
- damp down — To damp down something such as a strong emotion, an argument, or a crisis means to make it calmer or less intense.
- dancewear — clothing, as leotards and tutus, designed for dancing or dance practice.
- dankworth — Sir John (Philip William). 1927–2010, British jazz composer, bandleader, and saxophonist: married to Cleo Laine
- darwinian — of or relating to Charles Darwin or his theory of evolution by natural selection
- darwinism — the theory of the origin of animal and plant species by evolution through a process of natural selection
- darwinist — the Darwinian theory that species originate by descent, with variation, from parent forms, through the natural selection of those individuals best adapted for the reproductive success of their kind.
- dawn raid — If police officers carry out a dawn raid, they go to someone's house very early in the morning to search it or arrest them.
- dawnlight — The light of dawn.
- dawsonite — a mineral that is made up of sodium and aluminium hydrous carbonate and occurs in crystalline form
- deep down — If you know something deep down or deep down inside, you know that it is true, but you are not always conscious of it or willing to admit it to yourself.
- dew plant — sundew.
- dew point — the temperature at which water vapour in the air becomes saturated and water droplets begin to form
- dew snail — a slug
- deworming — Present participle of deworm.
- dial down — to reduce or become reduced
- dinwiddie — Robert, 1693–1770, British colonial administrator in America: lieutenant governor of Virginia 1751–58.
- disendows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disendow.
- disowning — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
- doorwoman — the female door attendant of an apartment house, nightclub, etc., who acts as doorkeeper and performs minor services for entering and departing residents or guests.
- doorwomen — Plural form of doorwoman.
- dow jones — financial news firm
- dowdiness — The characteristic of being dowdy; frumpiness; plainness.
- dowelling — Present participle of dowel.
- down card — a card that is dealt and played face down, as in blackjack and stud poker.
- down east — New England.
- down home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- down with — from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- down-home — of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.
- down-time — (jargon) A period of time during which a (computer) system is not operational, due to a malfunction or maintenance.
- downbeats — Plural form of downbeat.
- downburst — a strong downward current of air from a cumulonimbus cloud, often associated with intense thunderstorms.
- downcomer — a pipe, tube, or passage for conducting fluid materials downward.
- downcourt — to or into the opposite end of the court.