9-letter words containing a, c, r, o, t
- courtyard — A courtyard is an open area of ground which is surrounded by buildings or walls.
- covariant — a variant that changes leaving interrelations with another variant (or variants) unchanged
- covariate — a statistical variable that changes in a predictable way and can be used to predict the outcome of a study
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- 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.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- crazy top — a disease of cotton, corn, etc., characterized by abnormal branching and small, misshapen leaves in the upper part of the plant, caused by water shortage, organic deficiencies in the soil, or unknown causes.
- 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.
- crematory — A crematory is the same as a crematorium.
- crenation — any of the rounded teeth or the notches between them on a crenate structure
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- croquante — a crisp cake or pastry
- crorepati — (in India) a person whose assets are worth at least one crore or 10 million rupees
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crotaline — of or relating to rattlesnakes (Crotalinae)
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- croweater — (Australia, slang) A person from South Australia.
- cryolathe — an instrument for reshaping the cornea to correct severe nearsightedness or farsightedness: the cornea is removed from the eye, rapidly frozen, reshaped, and reinserted.
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- cryptogam — (in former plant classification schemes) any organism that does not produce seeds, including algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns
- culpatory — expressing blame
- 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.
- curtation — the discrepancy between the curtate distance and the true distance of a planet from the sun
- curvation — the action of curving or bending
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- cutthroat — a person who cuts throats; murderer
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.
- decimator — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- decorated — (often initial capital letter) of pertaining to, or characteristic of the English gothic architecture of the late 13th through the late 14th centuries, characterized by curvilinear tracery, elaborate ornamental sculpture and vaulting, and refinement of stonecutting techniques.
- decorates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of decorate.
- decorator — A decorator is a person whose job is to paint houses or put wallpaper up.
- dedicator — to set apart and consecrate to a deity or to a sacred purpose: The ancient Greeks dedicated many shrines to Aphrodite.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- democrats — Plural form of democrat.
- democraty — Obsolete form of democracy.
- detractor — The detractors of a person or thing are people who criticize that person or thing.
- diatropic — the tendency of some plant organs to take a transverse position to the line of action of an outside stimulus.
- dichromat — a person whose vision can only distinguish two colours
- dictators — Plural form of dictator.