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9-letter words containing a, e, r, o

  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cankerous — having cankers
  • cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
  • cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
  • canonizer — a person who canonizes
  • canonries — Plural form of canonry.
  • canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
  • canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
  • cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
  • cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • caprifole — honeysuckle
  • caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
  • caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
  • capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
  • caracoler — a horse that caracoles
  • caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
  • carambole — to make a carom
  • carbazole — a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C12H9N
  • carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
  • carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
  • carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
  • carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
  • carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
  • carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
  • carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
  • carborane — any of the crystalline compounds obtained by the substitution of carbon for boron in borane.
  • card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
  • cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
  • 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.
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