9-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- fourpence — a sum of money of the value of four English pennies.
- fourscore — four times twenty; eighty.
- frescoing — Present participle of fresco.
- frockless — with no frock
- frolicked — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frolicker — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frondesce — To unfold leaves, as plants.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- genocider — One who commits genocide.
- geocacher — A person who hides or seeks objects as part of the sport of geocaching.
- geocarpic — pertaining to geocarpy
- geocorona — a belt of ionized hydrogen surrounding the earth at the outer limit of the exosphere.
- geomancer — divination by geographic features or by figures or lines.
- geometric — of or relating to geometry or to the principles of geometry.
- georgical — Georgic; relating to rural affairs.
- geotropic — of, relating to, or exhibiting geotropism.
- gerfalcon — gyrfalcon.
- glen rock — a borough in NE New Jersey.
- glycerole — Dated form of glycerol.
- goldcrest — a Eurasian kinglet, Regulus regulus, having a bright yellow patch on the top of the head.
- gorbachev — Mikhail S(ergeyevich) [mi-kahyl sur-gey-uh-vich,, mi-keyl;; Russian myi-khuh-yeel syir-gye-yi-vyich] /mɪˈkaɪl sɜrˈgeɪ ə vɪtʃ,, mɪˈkeɪl;; Russian myɪ xʌˈyil syɪrˈgyɛ yɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), born 1931, Soviet political leader: general secretary of the Communist Party 1985–91; president of the Soviet Union 1988–91; Nobel Peace Prize 1990.
- gray code — (hardware) A binary sequence with the property that only one bit changes between any two consecutive elements (the two codes have a Hamming distance of one). The Gray code originated when digital logic circuits were built from vacuum tubes and electromechanical relays. Counters generated tremendous power demands and noise spikes when many bits changed at once. E.g. when incrementing a register containing 11111111, the back-EMF from the relays' collapsing magnetic fields required copious noise suppression. Using Gray code counters, any increment or decrement changed only one bit, regardless of the size of the number. Gray code can also be used to convert the angular position of a disk to digital form. A radial line of sensors reads the code off the surface of the disk and if the disk is half-way between two positions each sensor might read its bit from both positions at once but since only one bit differs between the two, the value read is guaranteed to be one of the two valid values rather than some third (invalid) combination (a glitch). One possible algorithm for generating a Gray code sequence is to toggle the lowest numbered bit that results in a new code each time. Here is a four bit Gray code sequence generated in this way: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 The codes were patented in 1953 by Frank Gray, a Bell Labs researcher.
- greatcoat — a heavy overcoat.
- grieshoch — a bed of embers, especially of a peat or moss fire.
- grocerant — A grocery store that sells prepared meals, either for eating on site or taking home.
- groceries — Also called grocery store. a grocer's store.
- grouchier — Comparative form of grouchy.
- gyrectomy — excision of a cerebral gyrus.
- gyroscope — an apparatus consisting of a rotating wheel so mounted that its axis can turn freely in certain or all directions, and capable of maintaining the same absolute direction in space in spite of movements of the mountings and surrounding parts: used to maintain equilibrium, determine direction, etc.
- hackamore — a simple looped bridle, by means of which controlling pressure is exerted on the nose of a horse, used chiefly in breaking colts.
- hard core — pornography: obscene
- hard-core — unswervingly committed; uncompromising; dedicated: a hard-core segregationist.
- hardcover — a book bound in cloth, leather, or the like, over stiff material: Hardcovers are more durable than paperbacks.
- hectogram — a unit of mass or weight equal to 100 grams, equivalent to 3.527 ounces avoirdupois. Abbreviation: hg.
- hectoring — Classical Mythology. the eldest son of Priam and husband of Andromache: the greatest Trojan hero in the Trojan War, killed by Achilles.
- hectorism — the character or actions of a hector
- hercogamy — (of flowers) the prevention of self-fertilization
- heroicity — suitable to the character of a hero in size or concept; daring; noble: a heroic ambition.
- heroicize — heroize.
- heterotic — Of or relating to heterosis (hybrid vigor).
- hexachord — a diatonic series of six tones having, in medieval music, a half step between the third and fourth tones and whole steps between the others.
- hickories — Plural form of hickory.
- hierocrat — a person who believes in government by religious leaders
- hog score — a line at each end of the rink, parallel to the foot score and usually 7 yards (6.4 meters) in advance of the tee.
- hogchoker — a sole, Trinectes maculatus, found in coastal streams from Maine to Texas and south to Panama.
- hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
- holocrine — (of a gland) releasing a secretion that is a product of disintegrating cells.
- home care — a service provided by a local authority social services department to those whom it judges most need it
- home-care — of, relating to, or designating care, especially medical care, given or received at home: a member of the hospital's home-care staff.