9-letter words containing c, e, t, o
- exotropic — (of an eye) turning outwards
- exsection — A cutting out or away.
- exsuction — The act of sucking out.
- extractor — A machine or device used to extract something.
- eyesocket — Alternative spelling of eye socket.
- facecloth — washcloth.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factorize — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- feedstock — raw material for processing or manufacturing industry.
- femtocell — A very small mobile phone base station that is connected to the phone network via the Internet, typically used in areas where the mobile signal is weak and considered to be smaller than a picocell.
- fencepost — A post which helps hold up a fence.
- fetlocked — having a fetlock or fetlocks
- fetoscope — a tubular fiberoptic instrument used for diagnostic examination of the fetus and interior of the uterus.
- fetoscopy — examination by means of a fetoscope.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- focometer — an instrument for measuring the focal length of a lens or other optical system.
- foeticide — feticide.
- footraces — Plural form of footrace.
- force fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- force-out — a put-out of a base runner on a force play.
- forcemeat — a mixture of finely chopped and seasoned foods, usually containing egg white, meat or fish, etc., used as a stuffing or served alone.
- forcement — (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- forecasts — Plural form of forecast.
- forecited — previously cited.
- forecloth — a cloth hung over the front of something, esp an altar
- forecourt — Tennis. the part of either half of a tennis court that lies between the net and the line that marks the inbounds limit of a service. Compare backcourt (def 1).
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- forestock — (firearms) forearm; handguard.
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- forficate — deeply forked, as the tail of a bird.
- formicate — To move like ants.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- forthcome — To come forth.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- galactose — a white, crystalline, water-soluble hexose sugar, C 6 H 12 O 6 , obtained in its dextrorotatory form from milk sugar by hydrolysis and in its levorotatory form from mucilages.
- genotoxic — a toxic agent that damages DNA molecules in genes, causing mutations, tumors, etc.
- genotypic — the genetic makeup of an organism or group of organisms with reference to a single trait, set of traits, or an entire complex of traits.
- geodetics — The scientific discipline that deals with the measurement and representation of the earth, its gravitational field and geodynamic phenomena (polar motion, earth tides, and tectonic motion) in three-dimensional, time-varying space.
- geomantic — Of or relating to geomancy.
- geomatics — The discipline of gathering, storing, processing, and delivering geographic information.