9-letter words containing c, e, t, o
- monticule — a subordinate volcanic cone.
- moot case — a case dealing with an abstract question, or one seeking a judgement on a right before the right has been asserted
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- motorcade — a procession or parade of automobiles or other motor vehicles.
- mouchette — a daggerlike form, especially in tracery, created by a segmental and an ogee curve so that it is pointed at one end and circular at the other.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mucronate — having an abruptly projecting point, as a feather or leaf.
- multicore — (computer hardware, of a processor) Combining two or more independent cores into a single package composed of a single integrated circuit.
- muscovite — a native or inhabitant of Moscow.
- mutoscope — A motion-picture device of the late nineteenth century, to be viewed by one person at a time through a peephole.
- myelocyte — a cell of the bone marrow, especially one developing into a granulocyte.
- nahcolite — a carbonate mineral, naturally occurring sodium bicarbonate, NaHCO 3 .
- nanticoke — a member of an extinct North American Indian people who inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
- narcotine — An alkaloid found in opium; noscapine.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotize — to subject to or treat with a narcotic; stupefy.
- neckcloth — cravat (def 2).
- necrotise — to undergo necrosis.
- necrotize — to undergo necrosis.
- necrotomy — Surgery. the excision of necrosed bone.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neglector — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
- negociant — wine merchant
- neocortex — the largest and evolutionarily most recent portion of the cerebral cortex, composed of complex, layered tissue, the site of most of the higher brain functions.
- neogothic — of, relating to, or designating chiefly a style of architecture in which gothic motifs and forms are imitated.
- neolithic — (sometimes lowercase) Anthropology. of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000–8000 b.c. in the Middle East. Compare Mesolithic, Paleolithic.
- neophytic — a beginner or novice: He's a neophyte at chess.
- nephrotic — Pertaining to, resembling or caused by nephrosis.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- neutronic — (physics) Involving neutrons.
- niccolite — nickeline.
- nicolette — a female given name, form of Nicole.
- nictheroy — Niterói.
- niocalite — (mineralogy) A monoclinic-domatic light yellow mineral containing calcium, fluorine, niobium, oxygen, and silicon.
- no object — not a hindrance or obstacle
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- non licet — not permitted or lawful.
- nonactive — engaged in action; characterized by energetic work, participation, etc.; busy: an active life.
- noncredit — (of academic courses) carrying or conferring no official academic credit in a particular program or toward a particular degree or diploma.
- nondirect — Not direct.
- nonerotic — Not erotic.
- nonethnic — not of or associated with any particular ethnic background or group: some of the best nonethnic cooking in town.
- nonexotic — not exotic
- noninsect — an animal that is not an insect
- nonmetric — not metric
- nonpoetic — not poetic
- nonsecret — not secret
- nonvector — a quantity without size and direction
- normocyte — an erythrocyte of normal size.
- nosecount — the counting of individual persons, as for a census.