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

  • convenors — Plural form of convenor.
  • converged — Simple past tense and past participle of converge.
  • converges — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of converge.
  • conversed — to talk informally with another or others; exchange views, opinions, etc., by talking.
  • converser — One who converses.
  • converses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of converse.
  • conversos — Plural form of converso.
  • conversus — a lay brother.
  • converted — (of a building) having been changed from a different use
  • converter — A converter is a device that changes something into a different form.
  • convertor — converter
  • conveyers — Plural form of conveyer.
  • conveyors — Plural form of conveyor.
  • convincer — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
  • conybeare — William Daniel. 1787–1857, British geologist. He summarized all that was known about rocks at the time in Outlines of the Geology of England and Wales (1822)
  • cooldrink — (South Africa) soft drink.
  • coopering — Present participle of cooper.
  • coordinal — (of animals or plants) belonging to the same order
  • coparceny — (legal) An equal share of an inheritance.
  • copartner — a partner or associate, esp an equal partner in business
  • coportion — (obsolete, nonce) equal share.
  • coppering — Present participle of copper.
  • copresent — to present jointly
  • coralline — of, relating to, or resembling coral
  • corbeling — the fashioning of corbels
  • cordoning — Present participle of cordon.
  • cordonnet — a thread or cord that is produced from coarse silk and is commonly used to outline embroidery and lacework, and for fringes
  • cordyline — any of various trees or shrubs of the genus Cordyline that are native to eastern Asia, Australasia, and Polynesia
  • coregency — Monarchical position (such as king, queen, emperor or empress) held by two persons when normally held by only one.
  • coriander — Coriander is a plant with seeds that are used as a spice and leaves that are used as a herb.
  • corkiness — the state of being corky
  • corkingly — (informal) In a corking manner; splendidly.
  • corkonian — a native or inhabitant of the city of Cork
  • cormorant — A cormorant is a type of dark-coloured bird with a long neck. Cormorants usually live near the sea and eat fish.
  • corn beef — corned beef.
  • corn belt — region in the NC plains area of the Midwest where much corn and cornfed livestock are raised: it extends from W Ohio to E Nebr. and NE Kans.
  • corn cake — Midland and Southern U.S. a flat corn bread baked on a griddle.
  • corn chip — a thin, crisp piece of snack food made from cornmeal.
  • corn laws — the laws introduced in Britain in 1804 to protect domestic farmers against foreign competition by the imposition of a heavy duty on foreign corn: repealed in 1846
  • corn lily — any of several South African iridaceous plants of the genus Ixia, which have coloured lily-like flowers
  • corn meal — meal made from maize
  • corn pone — a kind of corn bread baked in small oval loaves, or pones
  • corn rose — any of several red-flowered weeds of cornfields, such as the corn poppy
  • corn silk — the silky tuft of styles and stigmas at the tip of an ear of maize, formerly used as a diuretic
  • corn smut — an ascomycetous parasitic fungus, Ustilago zeae, that causes gall-like deformations on maize grain
  • corn snow — granular snow formed by alternate freezing and thawing
  • corn-pone — of or characteristic of an unsophisticated rural person, especially from the South: a corn-pone accent.
  • cornballs — Plural form of cornball.
  • cornborer — the larva of the pyralid moth Pyrausta nubilalis, native to S and Central Europe: in E North America a serious pest of maize
  • cornbraid — to braid (hair) in close parallel rows, creating a hairstyle known as a corn row
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