9-letter words containing c, r, i, n
- chondrite — a stony meteorite consisting mainly of silicate minerals in the form of chondrules
- chondroid — cartilaginous or similar to cartilage
- chorionic — Of or pertaining to the chorion.
- chorizont — a person who challenges the authorship of a work
- chortling — to chuckle gleefully.
- chorusing — Present participle of chorus.
- christens — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of christen.
- christian — A Christian is someone who follows the teachings of Jesus Christ.
- christina — 1626–89, queen of Sweden (1632–54), daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, noted particularly for her patronage of literature
- christine — a feminine name: dim. Chris, Chrissie, Tina; var. Christina, Christy
- chromatin — the part of the nucleus that consists of DNA and proteins, forms the chromosomes, and stains with basic dyes
- 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
- chronical — relating to or controlled by time
- chronicle — To chronicle a series of events means to write about them or show them in broadcasts in the order in which they happened.
- churching — the act of bringing someone, esp a woman after childbirth, to church for special ceremonies
- churnings — Plural form of churning.
- churnmilk — buttermilk
- cimmerian — very dark; gloomy
- cinctured — Simple past tense and past participle of cincture.
- cinctures — Plural form of cincture.
- cindering — Present participle of cinder.
- cinderous — a partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood, etc.
- cineramic — relating to a cinematic process producing widescreen images
- cineraria — a plant, Senecio cruentus, of the Canary Islands, widely cultivated for its blue, purple, red, or variegated daisy-like flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- cinerator — an incinerator.
- cinereous — of a greyish colour
- ciphering — calculating
- circadian — of or relating to biological processes that occur regularly at about 24-hour intervals, even in the absence of periodicity in the environment
- circinate — (of part of a plant, such as a young fern) coiled so that the tip is at the centre
- circle-in — a closed plane curve consisting of all points at a given distance from a point within it called the center. Equation: x 2 + y 2 = r 2 .
- circulant — (mathematics) A circulant matrix.
- cirenaica — Cyrenaica
- cisgender — of or relating to a person whose gender identity corresponds to their assigned birth gender
- cisternae — Plural form of cisterna.
- cistronic — cistron-related
- cithaeron — a mountain range in SE Greece: sacred to Dionysus, in Greek mythology. to 4623 feet (1409 meters).
- citizenry — The people living in a country, state, or city can be referred to as the citizenry.
- city-born — born in a city.
- claiborne — a male given name.
- clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
- claretian — a member of the “Congregation of the Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary,” founded in Spain in 1849, and devoted chiefly to missionary work.
- clarinets — Plural form of clarinet.
- clavering — Present participle of claver.
- clavicorn — any beetle of the group Clavicornia, including the ladybirds, characterized by club-shaped antennae
- cleanlier — Comparative form of cleanly.
- clearings — Plural form of clearing.
- clearskin — Cleanskin.
- clearwing — any moth of the family Sesiidae (or Aegeriidae), characterized by the absence of scales from the greater part of the wings. They are day-flying and some, such as the hornet clearwing (Sesia apiformis), resemble wasps and other hymenopterans
- clerkling — a young or inexperienced clerk
- clinchers — Plural form of clincher.