9-letter words containing c, m, o
- chemostat — an apparatus for growing bacterial cultures at a constant rate by controlling the supply of nutrient medium
- cheongsam — a straight dress, usually of silk or cotton, with a stand-up collar and a slit in one side of the skirt, worn by Chinese women
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- chi meson — a meson with a mass 6687 times that of the electron and a mean lifetime of approximately 1.5 X 10 -20 seconds.
- chirimoya — cherimoya.
- chironomy — the craft or artistry of moving the hands by following a standard or formula in relation to theatrical, oratory, or musical performance
- chisimaio — a port in S Somalia, on the Indian Ocean. Pop: reliable recent estimates are not available
- chiyogami — a type of highly decorated, colourful craft paper used for origami
- chokedamp — blackdamp
- chokeslam — A wrestling move in which someone is picked up by their neck and is driven into the mat.
- cholaemia — a toxic medical condition indicated by the presence of bile in the blood
- cholaemic — of or relating to cholaemia
- chomskyan — of or relating to Noam Chomsky or his linguistic theories, especially to transformational-generative grammar.
- chondroma — a benign cartilaginous growth or neoplasm
- chop mark — a notch or other mark made in a coin to indicate verification of its authenticity, especially by a banker or merchant in the Far East during the 18th or 19th centuries.
- choriambs — Plural form of choriamb.
- chow mein — Chow mein is a Chinese-style dish that consists of fried noodles, cooked meat, and vegetables.
- 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.
- chromatic — In music, chromatic means related to the scale that consists only of semitones.
- chromatid — either of the two strands into which a chromosome divides during mitosis. They separate to form daughter chromosomes at anaphase
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- chromato- — indicating colour or coloured
- chromidia — chromatins in cell cytoplasm
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- chrononym — (semiotics) A term for a specific period of time, such as
- cimbaloms — Plural form of cimbalom.
- cinnamons — Plural form of cinnamon.
- cinnamony — reminiscent of cinnamon
- cirriform — cirrus-like
- cis woman — an adult who was born female and whose gender identity is female.
- city room — the room in which local news is handled for a newspaper, a radio or television station, or for another journalistic agency.
- cladogram — a treelike diagram illustrating the development of a clade
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- clampdown — A clampdown is a sudden restriction on a particular activity by a government or other authority.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claremore — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- classroom — A classroom is a room in a school where lessons take place.
- claviform — clavate
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- climbdown — A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
- cloakroom — In a public building, the cloakroom is the place where people can leave their coats, umbrellas, and so on.