9-letter words containing a, e, r, o, c
- 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-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- casserole — A casserole is a dish made of meat and vegetables that have been cooked slowly in a liquid.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- 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.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- 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
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- charleton — a male given name.
- charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh