9-letter words containing a, r, t, l
- chartwell — a house near Westerham in Kent: home for 40 years of Sir Winston Churchill
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- 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
- chirality — the configuration or handedness (left or right) of an asymmetric, optically active chemical compound
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- choralist — a person who sings in a chorus or ensemble
- circuital — an act or instance of going or moving around.
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- 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.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clarities — clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
- claritude — (obsolete) clarity; splendour.
- clarthead — a slow-witted or stupid person
- clathrate — resembling a net or lattice
- clattered — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
- clatterer — One who clatters.
- claustral — of or related to a cloister
- claustrum — a thin layer of grey matter in the brain
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clear-cut — Something that is clear-cut is easy to recognize and quite distinct.
- cleartext — (cryptography) The unencrypted form of an encrypted text; plain text.
- cleithral — (of Greek temples) covered with a roof
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clericate — a clerical post
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clitellar — relating to the clitellum of earthworms
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collators — Plural form of collator.
- colorants — Plural form of colorant.
- colorcast — a television broadcast in color
- colorfast — A fabric that is colorfast has a color that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- colostral — a yellowish liquid, especially rich in immune factors, secreted by the mammary gland of female mammals a few days before and after the birth of their young.
- colourant — A colourant is a substance that is used to give something a particular colour.
- construal — an act of construing
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- contralto — A contralto is a woman with a low singing voice.
- corallite — the skeleton of a coral polyp
- coralroot — any N temperate leafless orchid of the genus Corallorhiza, with small yellow-green or purple flowers and branched roots resembling coral
- coralwort — any of various leafless orchids of the genus Corallorhiza
- cordately — In a cordate form.
- corelated — to correlate.
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn