9-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- ceromancy — divination by interpreting the significance of shapes formed when melted wax is dropped into water
- ceropegia — any of various, usually climbing or trailing, plants of the genus Ceropegia, native to the Old World tropics and often cultivated as houseplants.
- certosina — a technique of inlaying light-colored material, as bone, ivory, metal, or pale wood, in elaborate designs on a dark ground.
- chaeronea — an ancient Greek town in W Boeotia: site of the victory of Philip of Macedon over the Athenians and Thebans (338 bc) and of Sulla over Mithridates (86 bc)
- chaperone — A chaperone is someone who accompanies another person somewhere in order to make sure that they do not come to any harm.
- chaperons — Plural form of chaperon.
- chargeoff — Alternative spelling of charge off.
- chargeous — (obsolete) burdensome.
- charleroi — a town in SW Belgium, in Hainaut province: centre of an industrial region. Pop: 200 608 (2004 est)
- charleton — a male given name.
- charlotte — a baked dessert served hot or cold, commonly made with fruit and layers or a casing of bread or cake crumbs, sponge cake, etc
- charoseth — haroseth.
- charwomen — Plural form of charwoman.
- chaseport — a porthole through which a gun was fired
- checkroom — a place at a railway station, airport, etc, where luggage may be left for a small charge with an attendant for safekeeping
- chelators — Plural form of chelator.
- cheliform — shaped like a chela; pincer-like
- chemisorb — to take up (a substance) by chemisorption
- cherbourg — a port in NW France, on the English Channel. Pop: 25 370 (1999)
- cherenkov — Pavel Alekseyevich (ˈpavɪl alɪkˈsjejɪvitʃ). 1904–90, Soviet physicist: noted for work on the effects produced by high-energy particles: shared Nobel prize for physics 1958
- cherimoya — a deciduous shrub or small tree, native to the Andean highlands, which produces an oval fruit with cream-coloured flesh
- chermoula — a marinade used in N African cookery
- chernenko — Konstantin (Ustinovich) (kənstanˈtin). 1911–85, Soviet statesman; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (1984–85)
- chernigov — a city in N central Ukraine, on the River Desna: tyres, pianos, consumer goods. Pop: 308 000 (2005 est)
- chernobyl — a town in N Ukraine; site of a nuclear power station accident in 1986
- chernozem — a black soil, rich in humus and carbonates, in cool or temperate semiarid regions, as the grasslands of Russia
- cherokees — a member of an important tribe of North American Indians whose first known center was in the southern Alleghenies and who presently live in North Carolina and Oklahoma.
- chevronel — a narrow chevron, one-half the usual breadth or less.
- chew over — If you chew something over, you keep thinking about it.
- chiropter — an animal of the order Chiroptera; a bat
- chloracne — a disfiguring skin disease that results from contact with or ingestion or inhalation of certain chlorinated aromatic hydrocarbons
- chlorates — Plural form of chlorate.
- chlordane — a white insoluble toxic solid existing in several isomeric forms and usually used, as an insecticide, in the form of a brown impure liquid. Formula: C10H6Cl8
- chlorella — any microscopic unicellular green alga of the genus Chlorella: some species are used in the preparation of human food
- chlorides — Plural form of chloride.
- chlorites — Plural form of chlorite.
- choephori — a tragedy (458 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
- chokebore — a shotgun bore that becomes narrower towards the muzzle so that the shot is not scattered
- choleraic — relating to, like, or developing from cholera
- cholerine — (pathology) Minor diarrhea that happens during outbreaks of cholera.
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondrule — one of the small spherical masses of mainly silicate minerals present in chondrites
- choppered — Simple past tense and past participle of chopper.
- chordates — belonging or pertaining to the phylum Chordata, comprising the true vertebrates and those animals having a notochord, as the lancelets and tunicates.
- chordless — Lacking chords.
- chordwise — in the direction of an aerofoil chord
- choreatic — any of several diseases of the nervous system characterized by jerky, involuntary movements, chiefly of the face and extremities.
- choreutic — of or belonging to a chorus.
- chorister — A chorister is a singer in a church choir.
- chorussed — Simple past tense and past participle of chorus.