9-letter words containing a, t, r, c
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nigricant — black, blackish, or turning black
- nocturnal — of or relating to the night (opposed to diurnal).
- non-actor — a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.
- nonfactor — Something which is not a factor, or does not play a significant role.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nontragic — not tragic
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- nucleator — having a nucleus.
- obcordate — heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end, as a leaf.
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- obsecrate — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
- ochlocrat — An adherent of the principle of ochlocracy; a advocate of mob rule.
- octachord — any musical instrument with eight strings.
- octahedra — Plural form of octahedron.
- octameter — consisting of eight measures or feet.
- octonarii — lines with eight feet
- ocularist — a person who makes artificial eyes
- off-track — designating or of legalized betting on horse races, carried on at places away from the racetrack
- olfactory — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- one-acter — a short play consisting of one act.
- one-track — having only one track.
- operatics — Exaggerated or overly emotional behaviour; histrionics.
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orgiastic — of, relating to, or having the nature of an orgy.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- ostracise — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracism — exclusion, by general consent, from social acceptance, privileges, friendship, etc.
- ostracize — to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, privileges, etc.: His friends ostracized him after his father's arrest.
- ostracods — Plural form of ostracod.
- outbacker — a person who lives in the Australian outback
- outcharge — to charge more than
- outcrafty — to be craftier than
- outercoat — coat (def 1).
- outplacer — a person who outplaces ex-employees
- outpreach — to outdo in preaching or overcome by preaching
- outscream — to scream louder than
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- overacted — Simple past tense and past participle of overact.
- overactor — Someone who overacts.
- overacute — excessively acute
- overcasts — Plural form of overcast.
- overcatch — to overtake
- overcoats — Plural form of overcoat.
- overexact — Too exact; overscrupulous; pedantic.
- overmatch — to be more than a match for; surpass; defeat: an assignment that clearly overmatched his abilities; an able task force that overmatched the enemy fleet.
- overreact — to react or respond more strongly than is necessary or appropriate.
- overteach — to teach too much
- overwatch — to watch over.