9-letter words containing a, s, t, r, o, c
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- coastward — towards the coast
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- coatracks — Plural form of coatrack.
- coauthors — Plural form of coauthor.
- cofactors — Plural form of cofactor.
- 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.
- combaters — Plural form of combater.
- consortia — a combination of financial institutions, capitalists, etc., for carrying into effect some financial operation requiring large resources of capital.
- constrain — To constrain someone or something means to limit their development or force them to behave in a particular way.
- construal — an act of construing
- contracts — Plural form of contract.
- contrails — Plural form of contrail.
- contrasts — to compare in order to show unlikeness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc., of: Contrast the political rights of Romans and Greeks.
- contrasty — (of a photograph or subject) having sharp gradations in tone, esp between light and dark areas
- cornstalk — a stalk or stem of corn
- coroplast — A manufacturer of terracotta figurines (in Ancient Greece).
- corposant — Saint Elmo's fire
- coruscant — giving off flashes of light
- coruscate — to emit flashes of light; sparkle
- cosmocrat — a ruler of the world
- cost card — a summary of costs involved in the production of a product.
- costarred — Simple past tense and past participle of costar.
- cottagers — Plural form of cottager.
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- crackpots — Plural form of crackpot.
- crapshoot — If you describe something as a crapshoot, you mean that what happens depends entirely on luck or chance.
- crash out — If someone crashes out somewhere, they fall asleep where they are because they are very tired or drunk.
- crash-hot — extremely impressive
- craterous — of, relating to, or resembling a crater
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- cristobal — seaport in Panama, at the Caribbean entrance to the Panama Canal: part of the city of Colón
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crosstabs — Simple language for statistical analysis of tabular data. "User's Manual for the CROSSTABS System", Cambridge Computer Assoc (Feb 1977).
- crosstalk — unwanted signals in one channel of a communications system as a result of a transfer of energy from one or more other channels
- crotalism — a type of poisoning caused by ingestion of plants of the genus Crotalaria
- croustade — a hollowed pastry case or piece of cooked bread, potato, etc, in which food is served
- cryostats — Plural form of cryostat.
- customary — Customary is used to describe things that people usually do in a particular society or in particular circumstances.
- cystocarp — a reproductive body in red algae, developed after fertilization and consisting of filaments bearing carpospores
- cystogram — A diagnostic image produced by cystography.
- cytosmear — (cytology) A sample of cells, in the form of a smear on a microscope slide, that has been stained ready for diagnostic examination.