9-letter words containing c, o, r, e
- chromagen — (biochemistry) Any compound, such as heme, that forms a biological pigment when attached to a protein.
- chromakey — (in colour television) a special effect in which a coloured background can be eliminated and a different background substituted
- chromates — Plural form of chromate.
- chromogen — a compound that forms coloured compounds on oxidation
- chronaxie — the minimum time required for excitation of a nerve or muscle when the stimulus is double the minimum (threshold) necessary to elicit a basic response
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- claiborne — a male given name.
- clamoured — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- clamourer — One who clamours.
- claremont — a town in SW California.
- claremore — a town in NE Oklahoma.
- clarendon — a style of boldface roman type
- claymores — Plural form of claymore.
- cleanroom — A room or environment that is controlled in such a way as to minimize airborne particulate matter, typically for the purpose of fabricating sensitive electronic or other devices.
- clear off — If you tell someone to clear off, you are telling them rather rudely to go away.
- clear out — If you tell someone to clear out of a place or to clear out, you are telling them rather rudely to leave the place.
- clearcole — a type of size containing whiting
- cleopatra — a yellow butterfly, Gonepteryx cleopatra, the male of which has its wings flushed with orange
- clobbered — to paint over existing decoration on (a ceramic piece).
- clobberer — One who, or that which, clobbers.
- cloisters — Plural form of cloister.
- close-run — If you describe something such as a race or contest as a close-run thing, you mean that it was only won by a very small amount.
- clothiers — Plural form of clothier.
- clottered — Simple past tense and past participle of clotter.
- cloud ear — tree ear
- cloudware — software that runs and is accessed on remote Internet servers rather than on local servers or personal computers; web-based applications and services.
- clouterly — clumsy
- co-driver — one of two drivers who take turns to drive a car, esp in a rally
- co-editor — a person who cooperates or collaborates as editor with another.
- co-member — a fellow member of a particular group or organization
- co-parent — a divorced or separated parent who shares equally with the other parent in the custody and care of a child.
- co-relate — to correlate.
- co-winner — one of two or more joint winners.
- co-worker — Your co-workers are the people you work with, especially people on the same job or project as you.
- co-writer — to coauthor.
- coal fire — a mass of burning coal used esp in a hearth to heat a room
- coalescer — A coalescer is a vessel or stage which causes small drops of a liquid to come together and form a stream or form elements with a larger volume.
- coalminer — One who mines for coal.
- coarctate — (of a pupa) enclosed in a hard barrel-shaped case (puparium), as in the housefly
- coarsened — Simple past tense and past participle of coarsen.
- coat tree — clothes tree.
- coatdress — a coatlike dress having a buttoned front and, usually, lapels and long sleeves
- cockerell — Sir Christopher Sydney. 1910–99, British engineer, who invented the hovercraft
- cockerels — Plural form of cockerel.
- cockering — Present participle of cocker.
- cockhorse — rocking horse