9-letter words containing a, c, o, n, i
- canyoning — the sport of travelling down a river situated in a canyon by a variety of means including scrambling, floating, swimming, and abseiling
- caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
- caponized — Simple past tense and past participle of caponize.
- capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
- captioned — Simple past tense and past participle of caption.
- carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
- carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
- carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
- carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
- carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonium — a transient, positively charged organic ion, as H3C+, R3+, that has one less electron than the corresponding free radical
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- carcinoid — a small serotonin-secreting tumour, usually slow-growing and occurring in the gastrointestinal tract, although it may spread to the liver
- carcinoma — Carcinoma is a type of cancer.
- carillons — Plural form of carillon.
- carnaroli — a variety of short-grain rice used for risotto
- carnation — A carnation is a plant with white, pink, or red flowers.
- carnivora — carnivorous animals collectively
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnivory — the eating of animal flesh
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- 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
- carolling — a song, especially of joy.
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- caseation — the formation of cheese from casein during the coagulation of milk
- cashpoint — A cashpoint is the same as a cash dispenser.
- cassation — (esp in France) annulment, as of a judicial decision by a higher court
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- catalonia — a region of NE Spain, with a strong separatist tradition: became an autonomous region with its own parliament in 1979; an important agricultural and industrial region, with many resorts. Pop: 7 012 600 (2003 est). Area: 31 929 sq km (12 328 sq miles)
- catatonia — a state of muscular rigidity and stupor, sometimes found in schizophrenia
- catatonic — If you describe someone as being in a catatonic state, you mean that they are not moving or responding at all, usually as a result of illness, shock, or drugs.
- cathinone — (organic compound) The aromatic amine 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone that is the active ingredient of khat.
- causation — The causation of something, usually something bad, is the factors that have caused it.
- cautioned — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- cessation — The cessation of something is the stopping of it.
- chaconine — a toxic alkaloid substance found in potatoes
- chainwork — any work linked or looped in the manner of or resembling a chain or chains
- chalazion — a small cyst on the eyelid resulting from chronic inflammation of a meibomian gland
- champions — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of champion.
- chancroid — a soft venereal ulcer, esp of the male genitals, caused by infection with the bacillus Haemophilus ducreyi
- chelation — the process by which a chelate is formed
- chelonian — any reptile of the order Chelonia, including the tortoises and turtles, in which most of the body is enclosed in a protective bony capsule