9-letter words containing c, n, o
- cytopenia — a condition characterized by a deficiency of a type of blood cells
- cytotoxin — any substance that is poisonous to living cells
- damoclean — a flatterer who, having extolled the happiness of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, was seated at a banquet with a sword suspended over his head by a single hair to show him the perilous nature of that happiness.
- dancegoer — a person who attends dances or dance performances.
- daybeacon — an unlighted navigational beacon used as a daymark.
- daycation — a day trip to a resort, hotel, etc that does not involve staying the night
- deaconess — (in the early church and in some modern Churches) a female member of the laity with duties similar to those of a deacon
- decagonal — Shaped like a decagon.
- decameron — a collection of a hundred tales by Boccaccio (published 1353), presented as stories told by a group of Florentines to while away ten days during a plague
- decanoate — (organic chemistry) Any salt or ester of decanoic acid.
- decathlon — The decathlon is a competition in which athletes compete in 10 different sporting events.
- deceleron — (on a fixed-wing aircraft) a type of aileron that enables the aircraft to have a degree of control when it goes into a roll
- deception — Deception is the act of deceiving someone or the state of being deceived by someone.
- decession — a going away, lessening, or weakening
- decide on — If you decide on something or decide upon something, you choose it from two or more possibilities.
- decillion — (in Britain, France, and Germany) the number represented as one followed by 60 zeros (1060)
- decisions — A conclusion or resolution reached after consideration.
- decocting — Present participle of decoct.
- decoction — the extraction of the water-soluble substances of a drug or medicinal plants by boiling
- decodings — Plural form of decoding.
- decongest — to ease crowding or clogging in (an area)
- deconning — Present participle of decon.
- decontrol — When governments decontrol an activity, they remove controls from it so that companies or organizations have more freedom.
- deconvert — An apostate.
- decretion — The act of decreasing.
- decurions — Plural form of decurion.
- decursion — a military exercise performed by men bearing arms
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- defection — the act or an instance of defecting
- dejection — Dejection is a feeling of sadness that you get, for example, when you have just been disappointed by something.
- delmonico — club steak.
- demoniacs — Plural form of demoniac.
- demonical — inspired as if by a demon, indwelling spirit, or genius.
- demonymic — Having characteristics of a demonym.
- demoscene — a computer art subculture whose members produce non-interactive multimedia presentations in order to compete artistically
- denounced — Simple past tense and past participle of denounce.
- denouncer — One who, or that which, denounces.
- denounces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of denounce.
- dent corn — a strain of Indian corn (Zea mays var. indentata) in which the mature kernel develops a slight depression at the tip
- depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
- detection — Detection is the act of noticing or sensing something.
- deucalion — the son of Prometheus and, with his wife Pyrrha, the only survivor on earth of a flood sent by Zeus (Deucalion's flood). Together, they were allowed to repopulate the world by throwing stones over their shoulders, which became men and women
- devoicing — the process by which a consonant that is usually voiced becomes devoiced
- diachrony — a change over time, esp in languages
- diachylon — a type of adhesive plaster, formerly made of various plant juices, but later containing lead oxide and glycerin
- diaconate — the office, sacramental status, or period of office of a deacon
- dianoetic — of or relating to thought, esp to discursive reasoning rather than intuition
- diaphonic — Of or pertaining to diaphony.
- dichondra — any of a genus of creeping perennial herbs of the Convolvulaceae family, with white, pale yellow, or green flowers
- dickerson — Eric Demetric [dih-me-trik] /dɪˈmɛ trɪk/ (Show IPA), born 1960, U.S. football player.