9-letter words containing c, o, a
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- adduction — an adducing or citing
- adductors — Plural form of adductor.
- adhocracy — management that responds to urgent problems rather than planning to avoid them
- adipocere — a waxlike fatty substance formed during the decomposition of corpses
- adipocyte — a fat cell that accumulates and stores fats
- adjection — Act of adjecting or adding, or the thing added.
- advection — the transference of heat energy in a horizontal stream of gas, esp of air
- advocated — to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly: He advocated higher salaries for teachers.
- advocater — Alternative form of advocator.
- advocates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of advocate.
- advocator — a person who advocates
- aerobatic — (used with a plural verb) stunts performed in flight by an airplane, glider, or the like.
- aerogenic — producing gas, as certain bacteria.
- aeromancy — the interpretation of the weather and atmospheric conditions to foretell the future
- aeronomic — of or relating to the study of the upper atmosphere
- aeroscope — a device that collects bacteria from the air, used for observing the atmosphere
- aerospace — Aerospace companies are involved in developing and making rockets, missiles, space vehicles, and related equipment.
- affection — If you regard someone or something with affection, you like them and are fond of them.
- afro-comb — a comb with a handle and long teeth used esp on curly hair
- agincourt — a battle fought in 1415 near the village of Azincourt, N France: a decisive victory for English longbowmen under Henry V over French forces vastly superior in number
- agnostics — Plural form of agnostic.
- agonistic — striving for effect; strained
- agrodolce — an Italian sweet-and-sour sauce, made with onions, garlic, red wine vinegar, sugar, and raisins
- agrologic — of or relating to agrology
- agronomic — the science of soil management and the production of field crops.
- ahistoric — not related to or concerned with documented history
- air cargo — cargo transported or to be transported by an air carrier.
- air coach — coach (def 4).
- air corps — (before July 26, 1947) a branch of the U.S. Army concerned with military aviation.
- air cover — the use of aircraft to provide aerial protection for ground forces against enemy air attack
- air force — An air force is the part of a country's armed forces that is concerned with fighting in the air.
- air scoop — a device fitted to the surface of an aircraft to provide air pressure or ventilation from the airflow
- air scout — a scout belonging to a scout troop that specializes in flying, gliding, etc
- aitchbone — the rump bone or floor of the pelvis in cattle
- al capone — Al(phonse) ("Scarface") 1899–1947, U.S. gangster and Prohibition-era bootlegger, probably born in Italy.
- al fresco — out-of-doors; in the open air: to dine alfresco.
- albinotic — of or relating to albinism.
- alcathous — a son of Pelops and Hippodamia who married Euachme and became king of Megara.
- alcimedon — an Arcadian hero whose daughter, Philao, was seduced by Hercules.
- alcoholic — An alcoholic is someone who cannot stop drinking large amounts of alcohol, even when this is making them ill.
- alcool-90 — (language) An object-oriented extension of ML with run-time overloading and a type-based notion of modules, functors and inheritance. It is built on CAML Light. E-mail: <[email protected]>.
- alcyoneus — a giant who threw a stone at Hercules and was killed when Hercules hit the stone back with his club.
- aleatoric — designating or of music that involves chance or unpredictability in composition or performance or both
- alectryon — any sapindaceous tree of the genus Alectryon of Australasia, Southeast Asia, and Micronesia
- aleuronic — related to the aleurone layer
- algol 68c — (language) A variant of ALGOL 68 developed by S. Bourne and Mike Guy of Cambridge University in 1975 and used as the implementation language for the CHAOS OS for the CAP capability computer. ALGOL 68C was ported to the IBM 360, VAX/VMS and several other platforms.
- alkalotic — characterized by alkalosis
- allantoic — of or in the allantois
- allcomers — all people who want to compete, join or take part, esp in a sporting event, as opposed to members of a specific group