9-letter words containing c, o, n
- boneblack — a black residue from the destructive distillation of bones, containing about 10 per cent carbon and 80 per cent calcium phosphate, used as a decolorizing agent and pigment
- bononcini — Giovanni Maria [jaw-vahn-nee mah-ree-ah] /dʒɔˈvɑn ni mɑˈri ɑ/ (Show IPA), 1640–78, and his sons Giovanni Battista [baht-tee-stah] /bɑtˈti stɑ/ (Show IPA) 1670–1747, and Marc Antonio [mahrk ahn-taw-nyaw] /mɑrk ɑnˈtɔ nyɔ/ (Show IPA) 1675–1726, Italian composers.
- bontebuck — bontebok.
- boondocks — If you say that someone lives in the boondocks, you mean that they live a long way from any large cities.
- botanical — Botanical books, research, and activities relate to the scientific study of plants.
- box lunch — A box lunch is food, for example sandwiches, which you take to work, to school, or on a trip and eat as your lunch.
- brabancon — one of a variety of the Brussels griffon having a short, smooth coat.
- branchio- — gills
- brittonic — Brythonic
- bromantic — noting or pertaining to a bromance: You might call this movie a bromantic comedy.
- bronchial — Bronchial means affecting or concerned with the bronchial tubes.
- bronchium — a medium-sized bronchial tube
- broomcorn — a variety of sorghum, Sorghum vulgare technicum, the long stiff flower stalks of which have been used for making brooms
- brown cow — a drink made by mixing cola and milk
- brythonic — the S group of Celtic languages, consisting of Welsh, Cornish, and Breton
- buckhound — a hound, smaller than a staghound, used for hunting the smaller breeds of deer, esp fallow deer
- buckthorn — any of several thorny small-flowered shrubs of the genus Rhamnus, esp the Eurasian species R. cathartica, whose berries were formerly used as a purgative: family Rhamnaceae
- c horizon — the layer of a soil profile immediately below the B horizon and above the bedrock, composed of weathered rock little affected by soil-forming processes
- c rations — tinned food formerly issued in packs to US soldiers
- c-section — A C-section is the same as a Caesarean.
- cabin boy — a boy who waits on the officers and passengers of a ship
- cabochons — Plural form of cabochon.
- cacholong — a type of opal, commonly of a milky colour
- cacodemon — an evil spirit or devil
- cacogenic — dysgenics.
- cacophony — You can describe a loud, unpleasant mixture of sounds as a cacophony.
- caesionid — (zoology) Any member of the Caesionidae.
- cafe noir — black coffee
- cairngorm — a smoky yellow, grey, or brown variety of quartz, used as a gemstone
- calamanco — a glossy woollen fabric woven with a checked design that shows on one side only
- calcedony — Alt form chalcedony.
- caledonia — Scotland
- calimanco — calamanco.
- call down — to request or invoke
- call loan — a loan that is repayable on demand
- call upon — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- call-down — to cry out in a loud voice; shout: He called her name to see if she was home.
- calm down — If you calm down, or if someone calms you down, you become less angry, upset, or excited.
- cambodian — of or relating to Cambodia or its inhabitants
- 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)
- camp oven — a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire
- campagnol — (archaic) A mouse (Arvicala agrestis) that often does great damage in fields and gardens, by feeding on roots and seeds.
- campesino — a Latin American rural peasant
- campodean — a campodeid.
- canalboat — a long narrow boat used on canals, esp for carrying freight
- canaletto — original name Giovanni Antonio Canale. 1697–1768, Italian painter and etcher, noted particularly for his highly detailed paintings of cities, esp Venice, which are marked by strong contrasts of light and shade
- cancelbot — a computer program that deletes unwanted mailings to internet usergroups
- cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
- candomble — any of a number of similar religious cults in Brazil that combine elements of Roman Catholicism with elements of West African, esp Yoruba, and South American Indian religions
- cane toad — a large toad, Rhinella marina, native to Central and South America but introduced into many countries to control insects and other pests of sugar-cane plantations