9-letter words containing a, c, o, e
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carefront — To caringly confront an individual; To approach someone in love and respect and correct them in an honoring manner.
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnotite — a radioactive yellow mineral consisting of hydrated uranium potassium vanadate: occurs in sedimentary rocks and is a source of uranium, radium, and vanadium. Formula: K2(UO2)2(VO4)2.3H2O
- carollers — a song, especially of joy.
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- carrefour — a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
- carronade — an obsolete naval gun of short barrel and large bore
- carrousel — carousel
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- case shot — a quantity of small projectiles enclosed in a single case, as a shrapnel shell, for firing from a gun
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- casebooks — Plural form of casebook.
- casebound — bound in hard covers.
- caseloads — Plural form of caseload.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- casserole — A casserole is a dish made of meat and vegetables that have been cooked slowly in a liquid.
- cassonade — raw or unrefined sugar
- cassoulet — a stew originating from France, made from haricot beans and goose, duck, pork, etc
- castellón — seaport in E Spain, on the Mediterranean: pop. 133,000
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cataloged — a list or record, as of items for sale or courses at a university, systematically arranged and often including descriptive material: a stamp catalog.
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- catalogue — A catalogue is a list of things such as the goods you can buy from a particular company, the objects in a museum, or the books in a library.
- catchpole — (in medieval England) a sheriff's officer who arrested debtors
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- catfooted — having feet resembling those of a cat.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- cathouses — Plural form of cathouse.
- cautelous — crafty or cunning
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cavessons — Plural form of cavesson.
- cavewoman — A prehistoric woman who lived in caves.