9-letter words containing c, o, n, t, e, r
- procreant — procreating or generating: a sufficiently procreant breed of fish; a procreant cause.
- proteinic — Biochemistry. any of numerous, highly varied organic molecules constituting a large portion of the mass of every life form and necessary in the diet of all animals and other nonphotosynthesizing organisms, composed of 20 or more amino acids linked in a genetically controlled linear sequence into one or more long polypeptide chains, the final shape and other properties of each protein being determined by the side chains of the amino acids and their chemical attachments: proteins include such specialized forms as collagen for supportive tissue, hemoglobin for transport, antibodies for immune defense, and enzymes for metabolism.
- raconteur — a person who is skilled in relating stories and anecdotes interestingly.
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- recondite — dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter: a recondite treatise.
- reconduct — personal behavior; way of acting; bearing or deportment.
- reconnect — to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind: to connect the two cities by a bridge; Communication satellites connect the local stations into a network.
- reconsult — to consult (someone or something) again
- recontact — the act or state of touching; a touching or meeting, as of two things or people.
- recontour — the outline of a figure or body; the edge or line that defines or bounds a shape or object.
- reconvert — to convert again.
- reconvict — to convict (someone) again
- recosting — the price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain anything: the high cost of a good meal.
- recountal — an act of recounting.
- recounted — to relate or narrate; tell in detail; give the facts or particulars of.
- recounter — someone who recounts or narrates a story
- red count — a count of the red cells in a person's blood.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
- reliction — the process by which water recedes over time, changing the waterline and leaving land permanently exposed
- rencontre — rencounter.
- resection — Surveying. a technique of ascertaining the location of a point by taking bearings from the point on two other points of known location.
- rocinante — Rosinante.
- sclerotin — an insoluble protein that serves to stiffen the chitin of the cuticle of arthropods.
- secretion — (in a cell or gland) the act or process of separating, elaborating, and releasing a substance that fulfills some function within the organism or undergoes excretion.
- sportance — pleasurable or playful activities
- sticheron — a liturgical hymn sung in the Orthodox Church
- stonecrop — any plant of the genus Sedum, especially a mosslike herb, S. acre, having small, fleshy leaves and yellow flowers, frequently growing on rocks and walls.
- succentor — a precentor's deputy.
- sweetcorn — Sweetcorn is a long rounded vegetable covered in small yellow seeds. It is part of the maize plant. The seeds themselves can also be referred to as sweetcorn.
- tanorexic — obsessed with maintaining a permanent deep tan, esp through use of tanning machines
- tenor cor — mellophone.
- threnodic — a poem, speech, or song of lamentation, especially for the dead; dirge; funeral song.
- tierceron — (in a ribbed vault) a diagonal rib, other than an ogive, springing from a point of support.
- tolerance — a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry.
- ton-force — two thousand pound-force. Abbreviation: tonf.
- transcode — (language) An early system on the Ferut computer.
- tricerion — a candlestick with three arms
- tricotine — cavalry twill.
- truncheon — the club carried by a police officer; billy.
- tycoonery — a group of tycoons
- uncorrect — to convert (a true course) into a magnetic course.
- undercoat — a coat or jacket worn under another.
- vectoring — the act of vectoring or guiding aircraft using vectors
- victorine — a canon regular of the Order of St. Victor, founded in Paris, France, in 1110, which was famous for its learning and influence in the Middle Ages, and which became extinct during the French Revolution.
- xenocryst — a rock or crystal engulfed by magma and retained as an inclusion in the resulting igneous rock.