9-letter words containing a, i, r, c
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- cineraria — a plant, Senecio cruentus, of the Canary Islands, widely cultivated for its blue, purple, red, or variegated daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- circadian — of or relating to biological processes that occur regularly at about 24-hour intervals, even in the absence of periodicity in the environment
- circassia — a region of S Russia, on the Black Sea north of the Caucasus Mountains
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulars — Plural form of circular.
- circulary — (obsolete) circular; illogical.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citharist — a player of the cithara
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- civil war — A civil war is a war which is fought between different groups of people who live in the same country.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- clarifier — A clarifier is a vessel or stage in which remaining suspended solids are separated from a liquid to leave a clear overflow.
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- claviform — clavate
- cleanlier — Comparative form of cleanly.
- clear ice — glaze ice, especially on aircraft.
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- clergical — (obsolete) Of or pertaining to the clergy; clerical; learned.
- clericals — the distinctive dress of a member of the clergy
- clericate — a clerical post
- clickwrap — an agreement made by a computer user through clicking on a particular button onscreen
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clipboard — A clipboard is a board with a clip at the top. It is used to hold together pieces of paper that you need to carry around, and provides a firm base for writing.
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- cnidarian — any invertebrate of the phylum Cnidaria, which comprises the coelenterates
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- coaration — Cooperative ploughing.
- cogitator — to think hard; ponder; meditate: to cogitate about a problem.