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9-letter words containing c, o, r, e

  • bock beer — heavy dark strong beer
  • borescope — a long narrow optical device used to inspect the interior of a tight space
  • box score — In baseball and basketball, a box score is a printed table of statistics showing how each player performed in a game.
  • boxercise — a system of sustained exercises combining boxing movements with aerobic activities
  • boy racer — British journalists sometimes refer to young men who drive very fast, especially in expensive and powerful cars, as boy racers.
  • boycotter — a person who boycotts
  • bracteole — a secondary bract subtending a flower within an inflorescence
  • bricolage — the jumbled effect produced by the close proximity of buildings from different periods and in different architectural styles
  • broachers — Machinery. an elongated, tapered, serrated cutting tool for shaping and enlarging holes.
  • brochette — a skewer or small spit, used for holding pieces of meat, etc, while roasting or grilling
  • broderick — a male given name.
  • caballero — a Spanish gentleman
  • cabriolet — A cabriolet is a type of car with two doors and a convertible top.
  • cafe noir — black coffee
  • calembour — a pun
  • calfdozer — a small bulldozer
  • call-over — a preliminary hearing
  • camcorder — A camcorder is a portable video camera which records both pictures and sound.
  • 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)
  • campeador — a champion
  • camporees — Plural form of camporee.
  • cancerous — Cancerous cells or growths are cells or growths that are the result of cancer.
  • canephora — Caryatid that supports a basket on her head.
  • cankerous — having cankers
  • cannoneer — (formerly) a soldier who served and fired a cannon; artilleryman
  • cannonier — Alternative form of cannoneer.
  • canonizer — a person who canonizes
  • canonries — Plural form of canonry.
  • canrobert — François Certain [frahn-swa ser-tan] /frɑ̃ˈswa sɛrˈtɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1809–95, French marshal.
  • canyoneer — a person who explores canyons
  • cape horn — a rocky headland on an island at the extreme S tip of South America, belonging to Chile. It is notorious for gales and heavy seas; until the building of the Panama Canal it lay on the only sea route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
  • cape roca — a cape in SW central Portugal, near Lisbon: the westernmost point of continental Europe
  • cape work — the skillful practice of a bullfighter in using a cape to maneuver a bull.
  • cape york — the northernmost point of the Australian mainland, in N Queensland on the Torres Strait at the tip of Cape York Peninsula (a peninsula between the Coral Sea and the Gulf of Carpentaria)
  • caporetto — Italian village (now in Slovenia): scene of a battle of WWI in which the Italian army was defeated by Austro-German forces (1917)
  • caprifole — honeysuckle
  • caprioled — Simple past tense and past participle of capriole.
  • caprioles — Plural form of capriole.
  • capsomere — any of the protein units that together form the capsid of a virus
  • car phone — A car phone is a mobile phone, especially one which is designed to be used in a car.
  • caracoled — Simple past tense and past participle of caracole.
  • caracoler — a horse that caracoles
  • caracoles — Plural form of caracole.
  • carambole — to make a carom
  • carbazole — a colourless insoluble solid obtained from coal tar and used in the production of some dyes. Formula: C12H9N
  • carbolise — phenolate (def 2).
  • carbolize — to treat or sterilize with phenol
  • carbonade — a stew of beef and onions cooked in beer
  • carbonate — Carbonate is used in the names of some substances that are formed from carbonic acid, which is a compound of carbon dioxide and water.
  • carbonise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of carbonize.
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