9-letter words containing a, i, r, t
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- cathartic — Something that is cathartic has the effect of catharsis.
- cathartid — (zoology) Any member of the Cathartidae.
- catherine — Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded
- catoptric — the branch of optics dealing with the formation of images by mirrors.
- catterick — a village in N England, in North Yorkshire on the River Swale: site of an important army garrison and a racecourse
- catteries — Plural form of cattery.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cauterize — If a doctor cauterizes a wound, he or she burns it with heat or with a chemical in order to close it up and prevent it from becoming infected.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- cautionry — the position or function of a surety, a person who protects and takes responsibility for another person
- cavorting — to prance or caper about.
- centauric — characterized by an integration of mind and body for consciousness above the ego-self
- centigram — one hundredth of a gram
- centralia — a city in central Illinois.
- centrical — pertaining to or situated at the center; central.
- centurial — of or relating to a Roman century
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.
- cerastium — any of a genus of plants belonging to the family Caryophyllaceae
- ceratitis — Alternative spelling of keratitis.
- cerealist — a person who studies cereals and the conditions for their growth
- certainly — You use certainly to emphasize what you are saying when you are making a statement.
- certainty — Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- chairlift — a series of chairs suspended from a power-driven cable for conveying people, esp skiers, up a mountain
- chantries — Plural form of chantry.
- chapiters — Plural form of chapiter.
- charities — Plural form of charity.
- charteris — Leslie, original name Leslie Charles Bowyer Yin. 1907–93, British novelist, born in Singapore: created the character Simon Templar, known as The Saint, the central character in many adventure novels
- chartings — Plural form of charting.
- chartists — the principles or movement of a party of political reformers, chiefly workingmen, in England from 1838 to 1848: so called from the document (People's Charter or National Charter) that contained a statement of their principles and demands.
- chastiser — Someone who chastises.
- chatterji — Bankim Chandra [buhng-kim chuhn-druh] /ˈbʌŋ kɪm ˈtʃʌn drə/ (Show IPA), 1838–94, Indian novelist in the Bengali language.
- chemtrail — A contrail consisting of chemicals or biological agents deliberately sprayed at high altitudes, according to certain conspiracy theories.
- cheralite — a rare monazite mineral consisting of thorium and calcium
- chinaroot — the root of either of two plants, the galanga or the smilax
- chinstrap — a strap that goes under the chin
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christmas — Christmas is a Christian festival when the birth of Jesus Christ is celebrated. Christmas is celebrated on the 25th of December.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).