9-letter words containing c, e, t, o
- impotence — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- impotency — the condition or quality of being impotent; weakness.
- in pocket — a shaped piece of fabric attached inside or outside a garment and forming a pouch used especially for carrying small articles.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- incestous — Misspelling of incestuous.
- incondite — ill-constructed; unpolished: incondite prose.
- incorrect — not correct as to fact; inaccurate; wrong: an incorrect statement.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- incretion — a substance, as a hormone, that is secreted internally.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- injection — the act of injecting.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- innocents — free from moral wrong; without sin; pure: innocent children.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- insection — A cutting in; incision.
- insectoid — Insect-like.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercome — (intransitive) To intervene; interpose; interfere.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- intercrop — to grow one crop between the rows of another, as in an orchard or field.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- introduce — to present (a person) to another so as to make acquainted.
- introject — (psychology) To unconsciously incorporate into one's psyche.
- invection — (obsolete) An inveighing against; invective.
- invocated — invoke.
- iridocyte — a guanine-containing cell in the skin of fish and some cephalopods, giving these animals their iridescence
- isocrates — 436–338 b.c, Athenian orator.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- isometric — of, relating to, or having equality of measure.
- isooctane — the octane C 8 H 18 , used as one of the standards in establishing the octane number of a fuel.
- isopectic — a line drawn on a map connecting all points where ice starts to form at approximately the same period at the onset of winter.
- isosteric — Chemistry. having the same number of valence electrons in the same configuration but differing in the kinds and numbers of atoms.
- jackstone — jack1 (def 5a, b).
- jacobsite — a rare magnetic mineral, manganese iron oxide, MnFe 2 O 4 , similar to magnetite.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- jockteleg — a large clasp knife or pocketknife; jackknife.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- ketogenic — the production of ketone bodies in the body, as in diabetes mellitus or low-carbohydrate weight-loss diets.
- ketolytic — the breaking down of ketones.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- lactulose — (organic compound) A disaccharide of galactose and fructose formed when milk is heated.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- launcelot — Arthurian Romance. the greatest of Arthur's knights and the lover of Queen Guinevere.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- lectotype — a specimen designated as the type of a species or subspecies when no holotype was designated by the original author of the name.
- leucocyte — leukocyte.
- leucothea — a sea goddess, the deified Ino, who gave Odysseus a veil as a float after a storm had destroyed his raft.
- leucothoe — any of various shrubs of the genus Leucothoe, of the heath family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers.