9-letter words containing c, o, a, l, t
- clean out — If you clean out something such as a cupboard, room, or container, you take everything out of it and clean the inside of it thoroughly.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- climatory — Having to do with climate.
- clinostat — an apparatus for studying tropisms in plants, usually a rotating disc to which the plant is attached so that it receives an equal stimulus on all sides
- clintonia — any temperate liliaceous plant of the genus Clintonia, having white, greenish-yellow, or purplish flowers, broad ribbed leaves, and blue berries
- cloacitis — inflammation of the cloaca in birds, including domestic fowl, and other animals with a common opening of the urinary and gastrointestinal tracts
- clodpated — stupid
- cloistral — of, like, or characteristic of a cloister
- clonality — The fact or condition of being genetically identical, as to a parent, sibling, or other biological source.
- cloth cap — A cloth cap is a soft flat cap with a stiff, curved part at the front called a peak. Cloth caps are usually worn by men.
- cloth-cap — pertaining to or characteristic of the working class.
- clothyard — (historical) An old unit of measure for cloth, 36 or 37 inches.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- coagulant — a substance that aids or produces coagulation
- coagulate — When a liquid coagulates, it becomes very thick.
- coalition — A coalition is a government consisting of people from two or more political parties.
- coastally — In a coastal manner.
- coastland — the land fringing a coast
- coastline — A country's coastline is the outline of its coast.
- coat-tail — the long tapering tails at the back of a man's tailed coat
- coattails — If you do something on the coattails of someone else, you are able to do it because of the other person's success, and not because of your own efforts.
- cobalt 60 — a radioactive isotope of cobalt having a mass number of 60 and a half-life of 5.2 years, used chiefly in radiotherapy.
- cobaltite — a rare silvery-white mineral consisting of cobalt arsenic sulphide in cubic crystalline form: a major ore of cobalt, used in ceramics. Formula: CoAsS
- cobaltous — of or containing cobalt in the divalent state
- cochleate — shaped like a snail's shell; spirally twisted
- cockateel — Archaic form of cockatiel.
- cockatiel — A cockatiel is a bird similar to a cockatoo that is often kept as a pet.
- cocktails — Plural form of cocktail.
- coelomata — animals possessing a coelom
- coelomate — an animal that possesses a coelom
- coelostat — an astronomical instrument consisting of a plane mirror mounted parallel to the earth's axis and rotated about this axis once every two days so that light from a celestial body, esp the sun, is reflected onto a second mirror, which reflects the beam into a telescope
- coeternal — existing together eternally
- coevality — The condition of being coeval.
- cogitable — conceivable
- cognately — In a way that is cognate.
- coitional — of or relating to coitus
- colcothar — a finely powdered form of ferric oxide produced by heating ferric sulphate and used as a pigment and as jewellers' rouge
- cold meat — a form of meat that has been cooked and allowed to become cold
- coldwater — a river in NW Mississippi, flowing S to the Tallahatchie River. 220 miles (354 km) long.
- collagist — a technique of composing a work of art by pasting on a single surface various materials not normally associated with one another, as newspaper clippings, parts of photographs, theater tickets, and fragments of an envelope.
- collating — to gather or arrange in their proper sequence (the pages of a report, the sheets of a book, the pages of several sets of copies, etc.).
- collation — the act or process of collating
- collative — involving collation
- collators — Plural form of collator.
- colligate — to connect or link together; tie; join
- collimate — to adjust the line of sight of (an optical instrument)
- collocate — In linguistics, a collocate of a particular word is another word which often occurs with that word.
- colocated — Simple past tense and past participle of colocate.
- colorants — Plural form of colorant.