9-letter words containing c, a, r, n
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- prolactin — an anterior pituitary polypeptide hormone that stimulates lactation by the mammary glands at parturition in mammals, the activity of the crop in birds, and in some mammalian species the production of progesterone by the corpus luteum.
- provencal — of or relating to Provence, its people, or their language.
- provocant — a person who deliberately behaves controversially to provoke argument or other strong reactions
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- pyracanth — a thorny evergreen shrub of the genus Pyracantha, related to the hawthorn
- pyromancy — divination by fire, or by forms appearing in fire.
- querencia — (bullfighting) The area of the bull-ring where the bull makes its stand. (from 1930s).
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- racegoing — that goes to races
- rachidian — (anatomy, zoology) Of or relating to the rachis; spinal; vertebral.
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- rack-rent — Also, rack rent. rent equal to or nearly equal to the full annual value of a property.
- racketing — Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
- rackingly — in a racking manner
- raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- raincheck — a ticket for future use given to spectators at an outdoor event, as a baseball game or concert, that has been postponed or interrupted by rain.
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- rancheria — a family household unit or settlement.
- rancherie — an Indian village or settlement, especially one located on a reserve.
- ranchette — a small-scale ranch, typically of only a few acres.
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- ranchlike — resembling or characteristic of a ranch
- rancidity — having a rank, unpleasant, stale smell or taste, as through decomposition, especially of fats or oils: rancid butter.
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- re-change — to change again
- reactance — Electricity. the opposition of inductance and capacitance to alternating current, expressed in ohms: equal to the product of the sine of the angular phase difference between current and voltage and the ratio of the effective voltage to the effective current. Symbol: X. Compare capacitive reactance, inductive reactance.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- readvance — to advance again or further
- rebalance — to balance (something) again
- recalling — to bring back from memory; recollect; remember: Can you recall what she said?
- recapping — to recondition (a worn automobile tire) by cementing on a strip of prepared rubber and vulcanizing by subjecting to heat and pressure in a mold.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- rechannel — to guide (something) into or convey (something) through a channel or channels again or in a new way
- reclinate — bending or curved downward.
- recoinage — the act, process, or right of making coins.
- reconceal — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- recontact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recreancy — cowardly or craven.
- rectangle — a parallelogram having four right angles.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- red china — China, People's Republic of.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reductant — a reducing agent which as it is oxidized is capable of bringing about the reduction of another substance
- refinance — to finance again.