9-letter words containing c, e, r, a
- chicanery — Chicanery is using cleverness to cheat people.
- chickaree — another name for American red squirrel
- childcare — Childcare refers to looking after children, and to the facilities which help parents to do so.
- chimaeras — Plural form of chimaera.
- chimaeric — (of a molecule) having two genetically different components
- chinaware — articles made of china, esp those made for domestic use
- chipmaker — a manufacturer of electronic chips.
- chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chlorella — any microscopic unicellular green alga of the genus Chlorella: some species are used in the preparation of human food
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- cicatrice — Physiology. new tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar.
- cicatrise — (transitive) To heal a wound through scarring (by causing a scar or cicatrix to form).
- cicatrize — (of a wound or defect in tissue) to close or be closed by scar formation; heal
- cigarette — Cigarettes are small tubes of paper containing tobacco which people smoke.
- cigarlike — resembling a cigar
- ciguatera — food poisoning caused by a ciguatoxin in seafood
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- cineraria — a plant, Senecio cruentus, of the Canary Islands, widely cultivated for its blue, purple, red, or variegated daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circulate — If a piece of writing circulates or is circulated, copies of it are passed round among a group of people.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citigrade — relating to (fast-moving) wolf spiders
- clabbered — Simple past tense and past participle of clabber.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- clambered — an act or instance of clambering.
- clamberer — A person who clambers.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- clapbread — a type of cake made from oatmeal
- claqueurs — Plural form of claqueur.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claremore — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- clarences — Plural form of clarence.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarified — Clarified butter has been made clear by being heated.
- clarifier — A clarifier is a vessel or stage in which remaining suspended solids are separated from a liquid to leave a clear overflow.
- clarifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of clarify.