9-letter words containing a, c, r, o, n
- cornopean — a cornet
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- coronachs — Plural form of coronach.
- coronally — in a coronal manner
- coronated — having or wearing a crown, coronet, or the like.
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- corrading — Present participle of corrade.
- corraling — Present participle of corral.
- corrasion — erosion of a rock surface by rock fragments transported over it by water, wind, or ice
- corsicana — a city in E Texas.
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- cothurnal — relating to the cothurnus or to tragedy
- coumarone — a colorless liquid, C8H6O, derived from coal tar and combined with indene to produce synthetic resins used in paints, adhesives, etc.
- couraging — Present participle of courage.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- courtezan — Alternative spelling of courtesan.
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- crackdown — A crackdown is strong official action that is taken to punish people who break laws.
- craigavon — a district in central Northern Ireland, in Co Armagh. Pop: 57 685 (2001). Area: 279 sq km (108 sq miles)
- cramdowns — Plural form of cramdown.
- cramponee — (heraldry) Having a cramp or square piece at the end; said of a cross.
- cranbrook — a city in SE British Columbia, in SW Canada.
- crank out — If you say that a company or person cranks out a quantity of similar things, you mean they produce them quickly, in the same way, and are usually implying that the things are not original or are of poor quality.
- crayoning — Draw with a crayon or crayons.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- cremation — to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire, especially as a funeral rite.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- crewwoman — A female crewmember.
- crinoidal — (zoology) Relating to, consisting of, or containing crinoids.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crossband — (in furniture) a layer of wood beneath, and with its grain at right angles to, the veneer
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crown cap — an airtight metal seal crimped on the top of most bottled beers, ciders, mineral waters, etc
- crown law — criminal law
- crown saw — a hollow cylinder with cutting teeth forming a rotary saw for trepanning
- crownland — a large administrative division of the former empire of Austria-Hungary
- cryobanks — Plural form of cryobank.
- 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.
- curandero — a male healer or shaman in Hispanic-America
- currajong — kurrajong
- currawong — any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers