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9-letter words containing c, o, a, r

  • cameroons — former region in W Africa consisting of two trust territories, French Cameroons (in 1960 forming the republic of Cameroon ) and British Cameroons (in 1961 divided between Cameroon and Nigeria)
  • campeador — a champion
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cankerous — having cankers
  • cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
  • cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
  • canonizer — a person who canonizes
  • canonries — Plural form of canonry.
  • canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
  • cantorial — of or relating to a precentor
  • canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
  • capacitor — A capacitor is a device for accumulating electric charge.
  • caparison — a decorated covering for a horse or other animal, esp (formerly) for a warhorse
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
  • cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
  • cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • capriccio — a lively piece composed freely and without adhering to the rules for any specific musical form
  • capricorn — Capricorn is one of the twelve signs of the zodiac. Its symbol is a goat. People who are born approximately between the 22nd of December and the 19th of January come under this sign.
  • caprifole — honeysuckle
  • capriform — resembling a goat
  • caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
  • caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
  • capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
  • captopril — an ACE inhibitor used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • car radio — a radio built into the dashboard of an automobile
  • caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
  • caracoler — a horse that caracoles
  • caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
  • carambola — a tree, Averrhoa carambola, probably native to Brazil but cultivated in the tropics, esp SE Asia, for its edible fruit
  • carambole — to make a carom
  • carangoid — resembling a fish of the family Carangidae; carangid.
  • carbachol — a cholinergic agent, C6H15ClN2O2, used for various ophthalmic purposes, such as the treating of glaucoma
  • carbamino — relating to the compound produced when carbon dioxide reacts with an amino group
  • carbanion — a negatively charged organic ion in which most of the negative charge is localized on a carbon atom
  • carbazole — a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C12H9N
  • carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
  • carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
  • carbon 12 — the isotopic carbon atom that comprises 99 percent of naturally occurring carbon, and that since 1961 has been used as the standard for atomic weight by representing a unit of 12.00000.
  • carbon 13 — the stable isotope of carbon having an atomic mass number 13, used as a tracer.
  • carbon 14 — radiocarbon (def 1).
  • carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
  • carbonado — a piece of meat, fish, etc, scored and grilled
  • carbonara — a sauce, containing cream, bacon, cheese and egg, that is usually served with pasta
  • carbonari — a secret political society with liberal republican aims, originating in S Italy about 1811 and particularly engaged in the struggle for Italian unification
  • carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
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