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.