9-letter words containing c, a, r, n
- 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.).
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- inorganic — not having the structure or organization characteristic of living bodies.
- 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
- interrace — interracial
- intracity — Within a city.
- intraclub — Within a club.
- intricacy — intricate character or state.
- intricate — having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved: an intricate maze.
- invocator — invoke.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- irritancy — tending to cause irritation; irritating.
- jacaranda — any of various tropical trees belonging to the genus Jacaranda, of the catalpa family, having showy clusters of usually purplish flowers.
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jerry can — Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, 5-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
- jib crane — a crane having an arm guyed at a fixed angle to the head of a rotating mast.
- junctural — of or relating to phonological juncture.
- king crab — horseshoe crab.
- kingcraft — the art of ruling as king; royal statesmanship.
- knackered — exhausted; very tired: He is really knackered after work.
- la coruna — a seaport in NW Spain.
- lace-fern — a small, tufted fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, having dark-brown stalks and fronds about 4 inches (10.2 cm) long.
- lacertian — of or relating to lizards, or like a lizard
- lacertine — belonging or relating to a lacertid
- lackering — to coat with lacquer.
- lactarian — lactovegetarian (def 1).
- lancaster — the English royal family that reigned 1399–1461, descended from John of Gaunt (Duke of Lancaster), and that included Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Compare York (def 1).
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- lanciform — shaped like a lance: lanciform windows.
- land crab — any of several crabs, especially of the family Gecarcinidae, that live chiefly upon land, returning to the sea to breed.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larcenist — a person who commits larceny.
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- larvacean — Any of various solitary, free-swimming tunicates of the class Larvacea.
- latrociny — banditry
- launchers — Plural form of launcher.
- laurencin — Marie [ma-ree] /maˈri/ (Show IPA), 1885–1956, French painter, lithographer, and stage designer.
- lictorian — of or relating to a lictor
- limerance — Alternative form of limerence.
- lincrusta — a wallpaper having a hard embossed surface
- lochinvar — the hero of a ballad included in the narrative poem Marmion (1808) by Sir Walter Scott.