9-letter words containing c, e, r, a
- lucrative — profitable; moneymaking; remunerative: a lucrative business.
- lucubrate — to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
- lyre back — a back of a chair or the like having a pierced splat in the form of a lyre, often with metal rods representing strings.
- macabrely — In a macabre manner.
- macerated — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macerates — Plural form of macerate.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macgregor — Joanna (Clare). born 1959, British concert pianist and broadcaster; recordings include the "crossover" album Play (2001)
- machinery — an assemblage of machines or mechanical apparatuses: the machinery of a factory.
- machmeter — a device that indicates airspeed relative to the speed of sound.
- mackellar — Dorothea. 1885–1968, Australian poet, who wrote My Country, Australia's best known poem
- mackerels — Plural form of mackerel.
- mackerras — Sir Charles. 1925–2010, Australian conductor, esp of opera
- mackinder — Sir Halford John. 1861–1947, British geographer noted esp for his work in political geography. His writings include Democratic Ideas and Reality (1919)
- macquarie — a river in SE Australia, in New South Wales, flowing NW to the Darling River. 750 miles (1210 km) long.
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macromere — one of the large blastomeres that form toward the vegetal pole in embryos undergoing unequal cleavage.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- mainbrace — a brace leading to a main yard.
- manicured — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- manurance — the cultivation or occupation of land
- marcasite — Also called white iron pyrites. a common mineral, iron disulfide, FeS 2 , chemically similar to pyrite but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
- marcelled — Simple past tense and past participle of marcel.
- marcellus — (ʿAlī ibn-abu-Talib"the Lion of God") a.d. c600–661, Arab caliph (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad).
- marchlike — (music) Resembling a march.
- marchpane — marzipan.
- markevich — Igor [ee-guh r] /ˈi gər/ (Show IPA), 1912–83, Russian conductor and composer.
- marrakech — a city in W Morocco.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- mascarade — Alternative form of masquerade.
- mascaraed — a substance used as a cosmetic to color the eyelashes and eyebrows.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- massacred — Simple past tense and past participle of massacre.
- massacree — (colloquial) A sequence of events so absurd, complicated and uncommon as to be unbelievable.
- massacrer — One who massacres.
- massacres — Plural form of massacre.
- matricide — the act of killing one's mother.
- mavericks — Plural form of maverick.
- mcalester — a city in E Oklahoma.
- mccartney — (Sir) (James) Paul, born 1942, English singer, songwriter, and bass guitarist for the Beatles.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- melanuric — relating to melanuria
- mepacrine — The drug quinacrine.