9-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- jerfalcon — Alternative form of gyrfalcon.
- jobcentre — Alternative spelling of Jobcentre.
- karyocyte — (cytology) Any cell that has a nucleus.
- keratotic — any skin disease characterized by a horny growth, as a wart.
- kick over — to strike with the foot or feet: to kick the ball; to kick someone in the shins.
- kickboxer — someone who practises kickboxing
- kilocurie — a unit of radioactivity, equal to 1000 curies. Abbreviation: kCi, kc.
- knockover — to strike a sounding blow with the fist, knuckles, or anything hard, especially on a door, window, or the like, as in seeking admittance, calling attention, or giving a signal: to knock on the door before entering.
- kronecker — Leopold [lee-uh-pohld;; German ley-oh-pawlt] /ˈli əˌpoʊld;; German ˈleɪ oʊˌpɔlt/ (Show IPA), 1823–91, German mathematician.
- la crosse — a city in W Wisconsin, on the Mississippi River.
- lanceolar — (botany) lanceolate.
- landforce — a body of people trained for land warfare
- larcenous — of, resembling, or characteristic of larceny.
- latecomer — a person who arrives late: The latecomers were seated after the overture.
- lecherous — given to or characterized by lechery; lustful.
- lectorate — a lecturer in a college or university.
- licensors — Plural form of licensor.
- liquorice — licorice.
- localizer — (computing) A person who localizes.
- lockerbie — a town in SW Scotland, in Dumfries and Galloway: scene (1988) of the UK's worst air disaster when a passenger jet (Pan Am flight 103) was brought down by a terrorist bomb, killing 270 people, including eleven residents of the town. Pop: 4009 (2001)
- lockmaker — a person who makes locks
- lovecraft — H(oward) P(hillips) 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.
- lowercase — (of an alphabetical letter) of a particular form often different from and smaller than its corresponding capital letter, and occurring after the initial letter of a proper name, of the first word in a sentence, etc. Examples: a, b, q, r.
- macerator — to soften or separate into parts by steeping in a liquid.
- macgregor — Joanna (Clare). born 1959, British concert pianist and broadcaster; recordings include the "crossover" album Play (2001)
- macrocode — a single code that contains a set of instructions.
- macrocyte — an abnormally large red blood cell.
- macrodome — a dome the faces of which are parallel to the greater lateral axis.
- macroetch — to etch deeply into the surface of (a metal).
- macrolide — Any of a class of antibiotics containing a lactone ring, of which the first and best known is erythromycin.
- macromere — one of the large blastomeres that form toward the vegetal pole in embryos undergoing unequal cleavage.
- macropore — Any pore sufficiently wide to allow water to flow unimpeded by capillary action.
- macrotape — (storage) /mak'roh-tayp/ An industry-standard reel of magnetic tape, as opposed to a microtape. See also round tape.
- manticore — a legendary monster with a man's head, horns, a lion's body, and the tail of a dragon or, sometimes, a scorpion.
- marruecos — Spanish name of Morocco.
- masoretic — of or relating to the Masorah or the Masoretes.
- mcpherson — Aimee Semple [sem-puh l] /ˈsɛm pəl/ (Show IPA), 1890–1944, U.S. evangelist, born in Canada.
- mecometer — a caliperlike instrument for measuring the length of newborn infants.
- mediocris — (of a cumulus cloud) of medium height and often lacking a distinctive summit.
- mercapto- — (in chemical compounds) indicating the presence of an HS- group
- mercurous — containing univalent mercury, Hg +1 or Hg 2 +2 .
- meroclone — (biology) A colony-forming stem cell that has a lower growth potential than a holoclone because it is a mixture of stem cells and differentiated cells.
- merocrine — (of the secretion of glands) characterized by formation of the product without undergoing disintegration
- meroistic — (of an ovary) producing yolk and ova
- meronymic — Relating to a meronym or meronyms.
- mescalero — a member of a group of Apache Indians who originally inhabited northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S. east of the Rio Grande, have intermarried with the Chiricahua and Lipan, and are presently situated in New Mexico.
- mesocarps — Plural form of mesocarp.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- mestrovic — Ivan [ahy-vuh n Serbo-Croatian. ee-vahn] /ˈaɪ vən Serbo-Croatian. ˈi vɑn/ (Show IPA), 1883–1962, Yugoslav sculptor, in the U.S. after 1946.
- metalcore — (music) A genre of rock music related to punk and heavy metal.