9-letter words containing c, n, o
- coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
- copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
- copataine — (of a hat) high-crowned
- copayment — a fee paid by a subscriber to a service for the use of additional services not covered by the subscription
- copestone — a stone used to form a coping
- coportion — (obsolete, nonce) equal share.
- coppering — Present participle of copper.
- coppicing — Present participle of coppice.
- copresent — to present jointly
- copy down — If you copy down something that someone has said or written, you write it down exactly.
- coralline — of, relating to, or resembling coral
- corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
- cordoning — Present participle of cordon.
- cordonnet — a thread or cord that is produced from coarse silk and is commonly used to outline embroidery and lacework, and for fringes
- cordyline — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cordyline that are native to eastern Asia, Australasia, and Polynesia
- coregency — Monarchical position (such as king, queen, emperor or empress) held by two persons when normally held by only one.
- coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
- corkiness — the state of being corky
- corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.
- corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
- cormorant — A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.
- corn beef — corned beef.
- corn belt — region in the NC plains area of the Midwest where much corn and cornfed livestock are raised: it extends from W Ohio to E Nebr. and NE Kans.
- corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
- corn chip — a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.
- corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
- corn lily — any of several South African iridaceous plants of the genus Ixia, which have coloured lily-like flowers
- corn meal — meal made from maize
- corn pone — a kind of corn bread baked in small oval loaves, or pones
- corn rose — any of several red-flowered weeds of cornfields, such as the corn poppy
- corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
- corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
- corn snow — granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
- corn-pone — of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, especially from the South: a corn-pone accent.
- cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
- cornborer — the larva of the pyralid moth Pyrausta nubilalis, native to S and Central Europe: in E North America a serious pest of maize
- cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
- cornbrash — a type of limestone which produces good soil for growing corn
- cornbread — Cornbread is bread made from ground maize or corn. It is popular in the United States.
- corncrake — a common Eurasian rail, Crex crex, of fields and meadows, with a buff speckled plumage and reddish wings
- corncribs — Plural form of corncrib.
- corneille — Pierre (pjɛr). 1606–84, French tragic dramatist often regarded as the founder of French classical drama. His plays include Médée (1635), Le Cid (1636), Horace (1640), and Polyeucte (1642)
- corneitis — an inflammation of the cornea
- cornelian — carnelian
- cornelius — a masculine name: fem. Cornelia
- cornemuse — a type of French bagpipes
- cornering — the ability of a motor vehicle to cope with bends or corners in a road
- cornerman — the first baseman
- cornermen — Plural form of cornerman.
- cornetist — a person who plays the cornet