9-letter words containing c, r, a, n, s
- manicures — Plural form of manicure.
- mascarons — grotesque face used as decoration
- merchants — a person who buys and sells commodities for profit; dealer; trader.
- mesocrany — the state of having a medium breadth of skull
- misandric — One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
- miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
- monocarps — Plural form of monocarp.
- muscarine — a poisonous compound, C 8 H 1 9 NO 3 , found in certain mushrooms, especially fly agaric, and in decaying fish.
- narcissus — any bulbous plant belonging to the genus Narcissus, of the amaryllis family, having showy yellow or white flowers with a cup-shaped corona.
- narcistic — inordinate fascination with oneself; excessive self-love; vanity. Synonyms: self-centeredness, smugness, egocentrism.
- narcotics — Plural form of narcotic.
- narcotise — Alternative spelling of narcotize.
- narcotism — habitual use of narcotics.
- narcotist — One who is addicted to a narcotic drug.
- naucratis — an ancient Greek city in N Egypt, on the Nile delta.
- navicerts — Plural form of navicert.
- necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
- nectaries — Botany. an organ or part that secretes nectar.
- nectarous — of the nature of or resembling nectar.
- nonracist — One who is not a racist.
- nonsacred — Not sacred.
- nostratic — designating or of a proposed language superfamily that includes the Indo-European, Afroasiatic, Dravidian, Uralic, and Altaic families
- notecards — An ambitious hypertext system developed at Xerox PARC, "designed to support the task of transforming a chaotic collection of unrelated thoughts into an integrated, orderly interpretation of ideas and their interconnections".
- nuisancer — a person that creates a nuisance or public offence
- obscurant — a person who strives to prevent the increase and spread of knowledge.
- osnabruck — a city in Lower Saxony, in NW Germany.
- ostracean — a member of the family formerly called Ostracea
- periscian — a person whose shadow moves round every point of the compass during a day, i.e. a person located in the polar regions
- precisian — a person who adheres punctiliously to the observance of rules or forms, especially in matters of religion.
- pursuance — the following or carrying out of some plan, course, injunction, or the like.
- rabbinics — the Hebrew language as used by rabbis in post-Biblical times.
- radionics — a dowsing technique using a pendulum to detect the energy fields that are emitted by all forms of matter
- rainstick — a musical instrument consisting of a tube filled with sand or pebbles, which is inverted to produce a sound
- ranchless — having no ranch or ranches
- rancorous — full of or showing rancor.
- ransacker — to search thoroughly or vigorously through (a house, receptacle, etc.): They ransacked the house for the missing letter.
- reactants — a person or thing that reacts.
- recusancy — the state of being recusant.
- renascent — being reborn; springing again into being or vigor: a renascent interest in Henry James.
- resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
- rickstand — a platform on which to put or make a rick or haystack
- romanesco — a variety of green cauliflower
- rosecrans — William Starke [stahrk] /stɑrk/ (Show IPA), 1819–98, U.S. general.
- rusticana — objects, such as agricultural implements, garden furniture, etc, relating to the countryside or made in imitation of rustic styles
- saccharin — a white, crystalline, slightly water-soluble powder, C 7 H 5 NO 3 S, produced synthetically, which in dilute solution is 500 times as sweet as sugar: its soluble sodium salt is used as a noncaloric sugar substitute in the manufacture of syrups, foods, and beverages.
- sacrament — Ecclesiastical. a visible sign of an inward grace, especially one of the solemn Christian rites considered to have been instituted by Jesus Christ to symbolize or confer grace: the sacraments of the Protestant churches are baptism and the Lord's Supper; the sacraments of the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches are baptism, confirmation, the Eucharist, matrimony, penance, holy orders, and extreme unction.
- sacristan — Also called sacrist [sak-rist, sey-krist] /ˈsæk rɪst, ˈseɪ krɪst/ (Show IPA). an official in charge of the sacred vessels, vestments, etc., of a church or a religious house.
- sanctuary — a sacred or holy place.
- sand crab — any of several crabs that live on sandy beaches, as the ghost crab or mole crab.
- sandcrack — a perpendicular fissure in some part of the wall of an animal's hoof, esp. of a horse, often caused by sandy soil