9-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- carbonite — An explosive manufactured from a variety of materials, including nitroglycerine, wood meal and nitrates.
- carbonize — to turn or be turned into carbon as a result of heating, fossilization, chemical treatment, etc
- carborane — any of the crystalline compounds obtained by the substitution of carbon for boron in borane.
- card vote — a vote by delegates, esp at a trade-union conference, in which each delegate's vote counts as a vote by all his or her constituents
- cardphone — a public telephone operated by the insertion of a phonecard instead of coins
- care home — A care home is a large house or institution where people with particular problems or special needs are looked after.
- carefront — To caringly confront an individual; To approach someone in love and respect and correct them in an honoring manner.
- carnivore — A carnivore is an animal that eats meat.
- carnotite — a radioactive yellow mineral consisting of hydrated uranium potassium vanadate: occurs in sedimentary rocks and is a source of uranium, radium, and vanadium. Formula: K2(UO2)2(VO4)2.3H2O
- carollers — a song, especially of joy.
- carotenes — Plural form of carotene.
- carothers — Wallace Hume1896-1937; U.S. chemist
- carousels — A merry-go-round.
- carpooled — Simple past tense and past participle of carpool.
- carpooler — a member of a carpool
- carrefour — a public square, esp one at the intersection of several roads
- carronade — an obsolete naval gun of short barrel and large bore
- carrousel — carousel
- carryover — If something is a carryover from an earlier time, it began during an earlier time but still exists or happens now.
- carthorse — A carthorse is a large, powerful horse that is used to pull carts or farm machinery.
- cartonage — the material from which many Egyptian mummy masks and coffins were made, consisting of linen or papyrus held together with glue
- cartonero — A person in Latin America who collects discarded waste, such as cardboard, to reuse or resell.
- cartooney — Misspelling of cartoony.
- cartopper — an object, esp a small boat, designed to be transported on top of a vehicle
- cartouche — a carved or cast ornamental tablet or panel in the form of a scroll, sometimes having an inscription
- carve out — to make or create (a career)
- carve-out — to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine.
- caryopses — Plural form of caryopsis.
- case-work — the work of investigation, advice, supervision, etc., by social workers or the like, in cases handled by them.
- caseworms — Plural form of caseworm.
- casserole — A casserole is a dish made of meat and vegetables that have been cooked slowly in a liquid.
- castoreum — the oil secreted from the beaver which is used as bait by trappers
- cataloger — a person, normally in a library, who catalogues literary materials
- categoric — Categoric means the same as categorical.
- cautioner — A person who cautions.
- caveators — a person who files or enters a caveat.
- cavernous — A cavernous room or building is very large inside, and so it reminds you of a cave.
- cedarwood — the wood of a cedar tree
- cellarous — of, relating to or resembling a cellar
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- centriole — either of two rodlike bodies in most animal cells that form the poles of the spindle during mitosis
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- centurion — A centurion was an officer in the Roman army.
- ceraceous — waxlike or waxy
- ceratodus — any of various extinct lungfish constituting the genus Ceratodus, common in Cretaceous and Triassic times
- cerebroid — resembling the cerebrum or the brain.
- cerecloth — waxed waterproof cloth of a kind formerly used as a shroud
- cerograph — an engraving or writing on wax