9-letter words containing a, c, n, t
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- cuisinart — a brand of food processor
- culminant — highest or culminating
- culminate — If you say that an activity, process, or series of events culminates in or with a particular event, you mean that event happens at the end of it.
- cunctator — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- cup plant — a hardy composite plant, Silphium perfoliatum, of eastern North America, having large yellow flower heads and opposite leaves that envelop the stem, forming a cup.
- curtained — A curtained window, door, or other opening has a curtain hanging across it.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- custodian — The custodian of an official building, a companies' assets, or something else valuable is the person who is officially in charge of it.
- cut along — to hurry off
- cutaneous — of, relating to, or affecting the skin
- cyanotype — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, that produces a blue line on a white background.
- cyanurate — a salt or ester derived from cyanide
- cybernate — to control (a manufacturing process) with a servomechanism or (of a process) to be controlled by a servomechanism
- cybernaut — a person who is an expert in or uses the internet a lot
- cystidean — any one of the order of fossil echinoderms Cystidea
- cytherean — of or relating to Cytherea.
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- dancettee — having a pattern of chevrons
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- daycentre — a building used for daycare or other welfare services
- decadents — Plural form of decadent.
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decantate — having been repeated or sung again and again
- decanters — Plural form of decanter.
- decanting — to pour (wine or other liquid) gently so as not to disturb the sediment.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- decentral — Not central; decentralized.
- declarant — a person who makes a declaration
- declinant — a person who is declining or diminishing in luck or wealth
- declinate — (esp of plant parts) descending from the horizontal in a curve; drooping
- depascent — Consuming.
- descanted — Simple past tense and past participle of descant.
- desiccant — desiccating or drying
- detaching — Present participle of detach.
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- diactinic — able to transmit photochemically active radiation
- dianetics — A discipline devised by w L. Ron Hubbard designed to heal psychosomatic illnesses by cleansing the mind of engrams.
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- dicentras — Plural form of dicentra.
- dictamnus — (botany) A suffrutescent plant, Dictamnus albus (the only species in the genus), with strong perfume and showy flowers.
- dictating — to say or read (something) aloud for another person to transcribe or for a machine to record: to dictate some letters to a secretary.
- dictation — Dictation is the speaking or reading aloud of words for someone else to write down.
- dictional — of or relating to diction
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dilatancy — dilating; expanding.
- distanced — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- distances — Plural form of distance.