9-letter words containing c, o, n, i, l
- fictional — invented as part of a work of fiction: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective.
- flintlock — an outmoded gunlock in which a piece of flint striking against steel produces sparks that ignite the priming.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- flouncing — a strip of material gathered or pleated and attached at one edge, with the other edge left loose or hanging: used for trimming, as on the edge of a skirt or sleeve or on a curtain, slipcover, etc.
- fonticuli — fontanelles
- francolin — any of numerous Eurasian and African partridges of the genus Francolinus, having sharply spurred legs.
- genocidal — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- gin block — a block having a large sheave in an open metal frame, used especially to support a cargo whip.
- glycation — (biochemistry) non-enzymatic reaction of a sugar and an amine group of a protein to form a glycoprotein.
- gnostical — pertaining to knowledge.
- goldfinch — a European finch, Carduelis carduelis, having a crimson face and wings marked with yellow.
- halcyonic — calm; peaceful; tranquil: halcyon weather.
- halocline — a well-defined vertical salinity gradient in ocean or other saline water.
- haplontic — (chiefly of an alga or other lower plant) having a life cycle in which the main form is haploid, with a diploid zygote being formed only briefly.
- heliconia — any of a genus of tropical flowering plants with long flowering panicles
- holandric — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in males (opposed to hologynic).
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- hologynic — of or relating to a heritable trait appearing only in females (opposed to holandric).
- homunculi — an artificially made dwarf, supposedly produced in a flask by an alchemist.
- ichnology — the branch of paleontology concerned with the study of fossilized tracks, trails, burrows, borings, or other trace fossils as evidence of the occurrence or behavior of the organisms that produced them.
- iconology — the historical analysis and interpretive study of symbols or images and their contextual significance; iconography.
- ilocano's — a member of a people of Luzon in the Philippines.
- in clover — any of various plants of the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense flower heads, many species of which, as T. pratense, are cultivated as forage plants.
- in colour — If a film or television programme is in colour, it has been made so that you see the picture in all its colours, and not just in black, white, or grey.
- inclosers — Plural form of incloser.
- inclosing — Present participle of inclose.
- inclosure — enclosure.
- inclusion — the act of including.
- incomplex — Not complex; simple.
- indolence — the quality or state of being indolent.
- indolency — (obsolete) The lack of pain; absence of pain.
- inflictor — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inoculant — inoculum.
- inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- insolence — contemptuously rude or impertinent behavior or speech.
- insolency — Quality of being insolent.
- interlock — to fit into each other, as parts of machinery, so that all action is synchronized.
- invocable — to call for with earnest desire; make supplication or pray for: to invoke God's mercy.
- involucel — a secondary involucre, as in a compound cluster of flowers.
- involucre — Botany. a collection or rosette of bracts subtending a flower cluster, umbel, or the like.
- ironclads — Plural form of ironclad.
- isoclinal — of or relating to equal direction of inclination; inclining or dipping in the same direction.
- isoclines — Plural form of isocline.
- isoclinic — of or relating to equal direction of inclination; inclining or dipping in the same direction.
- isolectin — Any of a number of closely related lectins that are difficult to separate, and act together.
- isopycnal — Also, isopycnal [ahy-suh-pik-nl] /ˌaɪ səˈpɪk nl/ (Show IPA). having the same density.
- lace into — a netlike ornamental fabric made of threads by hand or machine.
- laconical — laconic.
- laconicum — the sudatorium of an ancient Roman bath.
- laconisms — Plural form of laconism.