9-letter words containing c, a, e, r, n
- freelance — Also, freelancer. a person who works as a writer, designer, performer, or the like, selling work or services by the hour, day, job, etc., rather than working on a regular salary basis for one employer.
- frenchman — a native or inhabitant of the French nation.
- frenzical — (obsolete) frantic.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- generalcy — the office or tenure of a general.
- generical — of, applicable to, or referring to all the members of a genus, class, group, or kind; general.
- genicular — of or relating to the knee
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- gernsback — Hugo, 1884–1967, U.S. publisher and inventor, born in Belgium: a pioneer in science-fiction publishing.
- grauncher — a person who crushes or destroys
- greenback — a U.S. legal-tender note, printed in green on the back since the Civil War, originally issued against the credit of the country and not against gold or silver on deposit.
- grievance — a wrong considered as grounds for complaint, or something believed to cause distress: Inequitable taxation is the chief grievance.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- hard neck — audacity; nerve
- henrician — of or having to do with the reign, policies, etc. of any king named Henry, esp. Henry VIII of England
- herculean — requiring the great strength of a Hercules; very hard to perform: Digging the tunnel was a herculean task.
- hercynian — denoting a period of mountain building in Europe in the late Palaeozoic
- heritance — inheritance.
- hindrance — an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like.
- hurricane — a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec). Compare tropical cyclone, typhoon.
- ice apron — a structure built in a river upstream from a bridge pier or the like for protection against drifting ice.
- icelander — a large island in the N Atlantic between Greenland and Scandinavia. 39,698 sq. mi. (102,820 sq. km).
- ignorance — the state or fact of being ignorant; lack of knowledge, learning, information, etc.
- in camera — a judge's private office.
- in charge — to impose or ask as a price or fee: That store charges $25 for leather gloves.
- incarnate — embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form: a devil incarnate.
- incertain — Uncertain.
- incourage — Archaic form of encourage.
- increased — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
- increaser — a person or thing that increases.
- increases — Plural form of increase.
- increated — Simple past tense and past participle of increate.
- incremate — (transitive) To cremate.
- incurable — not curable; that cannot be cured, remedied, or corrected: an incurable disease.
- incurvate — curved, especially inward.
- indurance — Obsolete form of endurance.
- inerrancy — lack of error; infallibility.
- inerratic — not erratic or wandering; fixed: an inerratic star.
- inertance — the effect of inertia in an acoustic system, an impeding of the transmission of sound through the system.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- insectary — a laboratory for the study of live insects, their life histories, effects on plants, reaction to insecticides, etc.
- insurance — the act, system, or business of providing financial protection for property, life, health, etc, against specified contingencies, such as death, loss, or damage, and involving payment of regular premiums in return for a policy guaranteeing such protection
- interacts — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interact.
- interarch — to have intersecting arches
- interclan — a group of families or households, as among the Scottish Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the Mackenzie clan.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interlace — progressive coding