9-letter words containing c, o, n, s, t, r
- cost rent — (in Britain) the rent of a dwelling calculated on the cost of providing and maintaining the property without allowing for a profit
- cothurnus — the buskin worn in ancient Greek tragedy
- countries — a state or nation: What European countries have you visited?
- courantes — Plural form of courante.
- courtesan — In former times, a courtesan was a woman who had sexual relationships with rich and powerful men for money.
- crayonist — (dated) An artist who uses crayons.
- creations — The action or process of bringing something into existence.
- creodonts — Plural form of creodont.
- cretinous — If you describe someone as cretinous, you think they are very stupid.
- crinosity — Hairiness.
- croissant — Croissants are small, sweet bread rolls in the shape of a crescent that are eaten for breakfast.
- crosstown — A crosstown bus or route is one that crosses the main roads or transportation lines of a town or city.
- crotonism — poisoning by ingestion of croton oil, characterized by burning of the mouth, severe diarrhea, and colic, with possible death from respiratory or circulatory failure.
- curbstone — A curbstone is one of the stones that form a curb.
- doctrines — Plural form of doctrine.
- doncaster — a city in South Yorkshire, in N England.
- electrons — Plural form of electron.
- erections — Plural form of erection.
- escorting — Present participle of escort.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- frictions — Plural form of friction.
- fructosan — any of the class of hexosans, as inulin and the like, that yield fructose upon hydrolysis.
- incoterms — Plural form of incoterm.
- inductors — Plural form of inductor.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- injectors — Plural form of injector.
- inspector — a person who inspects.
- intercoms — Plural form of intercom.
- micronuts — Plural form of micronut.
- narcotics — Plural form of narcotic.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- necrotise — to undergo necrosis.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- neurotics — Plural form of neurotic.
- nocturnes — Plural form of nocturne.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonsecret — not secret
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- optronics — Optoelectronics.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- satyricon — a satirical novel, interspersed with verse, written in the 1st century a.d. by Petronius, extant in fragments.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.