9-letter words containing a, c, e, r
- canneries — Plural form of cannery.
- cannister — Misspelling of canister.
- cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
- cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
- canonizer — a person who canonizes
- canonries — Plural form of canonry.
- canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
- cantering — an easy gallop.
- canvasser — to solicit votes, subscriptions, opinions, or the like from.
- canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
- cap screw — a screwed bolt with a cylindrical head having a hexagonal recess. The bolt is turned using a wrench of hexagonal cross section
- cape cart — a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle sometimes with a canvas hood
- cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
- cape race — a cape at the SE extremity of Newfoundland, Canada
- cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
- cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
- cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
- capernaum — a ruined town in N Israel, on the NW shore of the Sea of Galilee: closely associated with Jesus Christ during his ministry
- caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
- caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
- caprylate — a salt of caprylic acid
- capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
- capturers — to take by force or stratagem; take prisoner; seize: The police captured the burglar.
- car chase — when one car is in quick pursuit of another
- car crime — crime in which cars are stolen or in which things are stolen from cars
- car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles
- car-ferry — a vessel for transporting vehicles, in addition to passengers, across a body of water, esp as a regular service
- carabiner — in mountain climbing, an oval metal ring with a snap link used to fasten a rope to the piton
- caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
- caracoler — a horse that caracoles
- caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
- caragheen — Alternative form of carrageen.
- carambole — to make a carom
- carapaced — (of an animal) having a carapace
- carapaces — Plural form of carapace.
- caravaner — One who travels in a caravan (convoy or procession).
- carbamate — a salt or ester of carbamic acid. The salts contain the monovalent ion NH2COO–, and the esters contain the group NH2COO–
- carbamide — urea.
- carbazole — a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C12H9N
- carbenium — (organic chemistry, informal) Any carbocation.
- carbineer — (formerly) a soldier equipped with a carbine
- carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
- carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
- carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
- carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.