9-letter words containing c, r, i, s
- cardinals — of prime importance; chief; principal: of cardinal significance.
- careerism — devotion to a successful career, often at the expense of one's personal life, ethics, etc.
- careerist — Careerist people are ambitious and think that their career is more important than anything else.
- caressing — an act or gesture expressing affection, as an embrace or kiss, especially a light stroking or touching.
- caressive — resembling a caress or tending to caress
- carillons — Plural form of carillon.
- cariosity — (medicine) caries.
- carnalise — sensualise
- carnalism — the quality or state of being sensual
- carnifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of carnify.
- carnivals — Plural form of carnival.
- carnosity — an abnormal fleshy protrusion growing on any part of the body
- carousing — to engage in a drunken revel: They caroused all night.
- carriages — Plural form of carriage.
- cartelism — the practice of forming cartels
- cartelist — a member of a cartel, or a supporter of cartelism
- cartesian — of or relating to the works of René Descartes
- carveries — Plural form of carvery.
- caryatids — Plural form of caryatid.
- caryopsis — a dry seedlike fruit having the pericarp fused to the seed coat of the single seed: produced by the grasses
- cashiered — to dismiss (a military officer) from service, especially with disgrace.
- cashierer — a person who rejects or dismisses from office
- cassimere — a woollen suiting cloth of plain or twill weave
- cast iron — Cast iron is iron which contains a small amount of carbon. It is hard and cannot be bent so it has to be made into objects by casting.
- cast-iron — made of cast iron.
- castering — a person or thing that casts.
- castroism — the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- castroist — of or relating to the philosophy and policies of Fidel Castro and his followers
- casuarina — any tree of the genus Casuarina, of Australia and the East Indies, having jointed leafless branchlets: family Casuarinaceae
- casuistry — Casuistry is the use of clever arguments to persuade or trick people.
- catharise — purify
- catharsis — Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way.
- catteries — Plural form of cattery.
- causeries — Plural form of causerie.
- cauteries — Plural form of cautery.
- cauterise — to burn with a hot iron, electric current, fire, or a caustic, especially for curative purposes; treat with a cautery.
- cauterism — the application of burning, searing, or cautery
- cavaliers — Plural form of cavalier.
- cavalries — Plural form of cavalry.
- ceasefire — A ceasefire is an arrangement in which countries or groups of people that are fighting each other agree to stop fighting.
- ceintures — cincture (defs 1, 2).
- censorial — an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs, letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral, political, military, or other grounds.
- censorian — relating to the official supervision of public behaviour and morals
- censoring — any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.
- censuring — strong or vehement expression of disapproval: The newspapers were unanimous in their censure of the tax proposal.
- centrists — Plural form of centrist.
- centroids — Plural form of centroid.
- centuries — Plural form of century.
- ceramides — Plural form of ceramide.
- ceramists — Plural form of ceramist.